Yellow Cake

Ingredients

• ~)k cupful butter
• 1^2 cups sugar
• 3 cupsful Swansdown Cake Flour
• 4 level teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 cupful milk
• 1 teaspoon ful vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Mix and sift dry ingredients three times.

2. 2

   Cream shortening, add sugar gradually; then beaten egg yolks.

3. 3

   Beat hard until light and fluffy.

4. 4

   Add milk and dry ingredients, alternately, beating after each addition.

5. 5

   Add small layers, moderately hot oven (375 F.) about 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delicacies (1929) by Thursday Club (San Diego, Calif.), page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Yellow Cake Y\ cupful butter or 4 level teaspoonfuls baking substitute powder 1^ cupfuls sugar 3 eggs 3 cupsful Swansdown Cake 1 cupful milk Flour 1 teaspoon ful vanilla Mix and sift dry ingredients three times. Cream short- ening, add sugar gradually; then beaten egg yolks. Beat hard until light and fluffy. Add milk and dry ingredients, alternately, beating after each addition. Add small layers, moderately hot oven (375 F.) about 30 minutes. — Mrs. Arthur Nordstrom. Never-Fail Angel Food Cake 1 cup egg whites 1 cup flour 1% cup sugar 1 teaspoon cream of tartar Flavoring Sift flour and sugar twice before measuring. Add cream of tartar and sift together twice. Beat egg whites very stiff and dry and add dry mixture folding gently. Do not stir. Add flavoring, pour into a buttered tube cake pan and bake in a slow oven for forty minutes. — Mrs. Kenneth Lyons. Chocolate Roll Cake 3 eggs 1 teaspoon ful baking 1 cup of sugar powder 1 cup of flour 6 tablespoonfuls boiling water Beat whites until stiff, add sugar gradually, also yolks of eggs well beaten, then remaining ingredients. Bake twenty minutes in a flat pan. Have the following filling ready to spread on hot cake: Filling: Melt ll/2 squares chocolate in double boiler, add l/2 cup sugar, r/2 cup water, stir until well blended, add T/2 cup milk, \l/2 tablespoonfuls cornstarch, 1 teaspoonful butter, stir constantly until thick and smooth. Add y2 teaspoonful vanilla. Spread on cake and roll like jelly-roll. — Mrs. Chester Neal Munson. —105— Calces Thursday Club Delicacies 4- Lady Baltimore Cake Y cup butter 2 teaspoons of baking pow- 1^2 cups sugar

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