Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Melrose flour
• 1 cup milk
• 1 lb. sugar
• 1/2 lb. butter
• 2 level teaspoons Royal baking powder
• 6 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together; add milk and flour alternately.

2. 2

   Break eggs in one at the time, beating one minute each time.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven for 1.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Anson County cook book (1928) by First Baptist Church (Wadesboro, N.C.), page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VELVET CAKE 1 lb. Melrose flour 1 cup milk 1 lb. sugar V2 lb. butter 2 level teaspoons Royal baking 6 eggs powder Cream butter and sugar together; add milk and flour alternately. Break eggs in one at the time, beating one minute each time. Bake in a moderate oven IV2 hours. — Mrs. M. W. Lee. WHITE POUND CAKE 1 pound sugar V2 pound butter 16 egg whites 1 pound Melrose flour 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder Cream butter and sugar. Sift flour and baking powder together and add gradually. Lastly, fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs. — Mrs. M. L. Ham, Morven, N. C. WHITE COCOANUT CAKE 8 eggs (whites) 1 cup sweet milk 3 cups Melrose flour 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons Sauer's orange extract 1 cup butter V2 teaspoon Sauer's almond Icing 3 cups sugar 3 eggs (whites) V2 cup boiling water Usually takes about two cocoanuts for filling. — Harriet Lavinia Boggam 106 — GOOD MEALS — HOME COOKING — THE NATIONAL HOTEL — LANE CAKE 8 eggs (whites) S\i cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 cup sweet milk 1 cup butter 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder Pineapple Filling — to be used with Lane Cake, or any other cake: Use well-beaten yolks of 8 eggs (drain off juices of can of grated pine- apple) into it put 1% cups of sugar and the beaten eggs. Cook in a double boiler until very thick, when cool add grated pineapple and spread between cake. — Mrs. Charlie Gathings. MARBLE CAKE 6 eggs, beaten separately 2 cups sugar 1 cup butter 3 cups Melrose flour 1 cup sweet milk 1 teaspoon Royal baking powder Cream butter, add sugar, then milk; sift the flour and baking powder together, then add to other ingredients. Divide the batter as near equally as you can by guess, put the white of egg in one part and the yolks in the other, then drop a spoonful in baking pan alternately, and it mixes itself. —Mrs. W. A. Smith. LADY BALTIMORE CAKE 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 3% cups Melrose flour 1 cup sweet milk 0 eggs (whites) 2 level teaspoons Royal baking- powde

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