Two-Egg Cake

Ingredients

• ¥% cup butter
• 134 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• V teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs, well beaten
• V¥% cup milk
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and add half the sugar gradually.

2. 2

   Add remaining sugar to egg.

3. 3

   Combine mixtures.

4. 4

   Mix and sift flour, baking powder, and salt.

5. 5

   Add alternately with milk to first mixture.

6. 6

   Add vanilla.

7. 7

   Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 270. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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