Simple Butter Cake

Ingredients

• ^ cup butter
• 3 cups flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 4 egg yolks
• 4 egg whites
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon flavoring
• 1 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Follow directions for making Butter Cake and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven for forty minutes, or in rounds for twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 99. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Simple Butter Cake ^ cup butter 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 4 teaspoons baking powder 4 egg yolks 4 egg whites 1 cup milk 1 teaspoon flavoring I teaspoon salt Follow directions for making Butter CakeJ and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven forty minutes, or in rounds twenty minutes. Currant Cake Add one cup currants to Simple Butter Cake. Bake in loaves or rounds. Layer Cake Bake Simple Butter Cake in four square shallow pans. Fill with lemon cream, cocoanut cream, chocolate cream, or lelly. Gold Cake I cup butter 4 teaspoons baking powder 1^ cups sugar 1^ cups milk 8 egg yolks ^ teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 teaspoon lemon extract, or 2^ cups flour 1 teaspoon orange extract Follow directions for Butter Cake, and bake in loaves or rounds. 252 lowney's cook book Silver Cake f cup butter \ teaspoon salt 2 cups sugar \ cup milk 2 cups pastry flour 8 egg whites 4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon almond extract Follow directions for mixing Butter Cake. Bake in loaves or rounds in a moderate oven. Nut Cake Add one cup chopped walnuts to Silver Cake mixture, and flavor with vanilla instead of almond. Orange Cake ♦ \ cup butter 1| cups flour 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 2 egg yolks \ cup milk \ teaspoon salt 2 egg whites 1 tablespoon orange extract Mix as Butter Cake, and bake in two-layer cake pans twenty minutes. Cool, fill with orange filling, and cover with orange frosting. Cream Pie Use rule for Orange Cake. Fill with cream filling, and sprinkle top with powdered sugar. Spice Cake ^ cup butter 2 cups flour 1^ cups brown sugar 3 teaspoons baking powder 2 eggs 1 teaspoon cinnamon \ cup milk J teaspoon nutmeg \ teaspoon salt \ teaspoon clove Mix and sift dry ingredients, add butter, sugar, eggs, and milk, and beat until smooth. Bake in a moderate oven forty minutes. One cup chopped raisins, or one cup chopped dates may be added to this cake. CAKE AND cookies; FBOSTINGS AND FILLINGS 253 ^ cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 egg yolks ^ cup milk 2 egg whites Marble Cake J teaspoon cinnamon J teaspoon nutmeg I teaspoon salt 1| cups of flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon molasses Cream butter ; add sugar, yolks of eggs beaten until thick, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, alter- nately with milk and egg whites, beaten until stiff. To one third of this mixture add the spices. Pour into pan the light and dark mixtures irregularly. Jelly Roll 3 egg yolks 1| cups sugar ^ cup water I teaspoon salt 2 cups pastry flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 3 egg whites 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift baking powder and salt with flour, and follow directions for making Sponge Cake. Pour into medium- sized buttered dripping pan to depth of one half inch. Bake in a moderate oven ten to twelve minutes ; turn on to a wet cheese cloth sprinkled with confectioners' sugar. Cut off edges of cake, spread with warm jelly, and roll. Work quickly. -* Pound Cake 1 pound butter 1 pound sugar 10 eggs 1 pound flour ^ cup wine ^ cup brandy few gratings nutmeg Cream butter ; add flour. When well blended, add yolks of eggs beaten until thick, then sugar with nutmeg, whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and wine and brandy. Bake in loaves or small cakes. 254 lowney's cook book Fruit Cake 1 pound sugar (brown) 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 pound butter 2 cups raisins 12 eggs 4 cups currants 1 pound flour 4 cups chopped almonds ^ teaspoon cloves 4 cups chopped citron 1 teaspoon each nutmeg and juice and rind of 1 lemon mace I cup brandy Cream butter ; add sugar, eggs well beaten, and remain- ing ingredients. Pour into buttered and papered pans. Steam three hours and bake two hours. Raised Fruit Cake 4 cups flour J yeast cake dissolved in one half 1 cup butter cup water 1^ cups sugar 2 eggs ^ cup milk J ciif) wine 1 teaspoon salt

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