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CAKES, COOKIES, Etc.

 

EASY CAKE

• MATERIALS
• 2 eggs
• Milk
• 1½ cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking-powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 5 tablespoons butter

• UTENSILS
• Bowl
• Sifter
• Wooden cake-spoon
• Small saucepan
• Dover beater
• Cake-pan (with tube)

DIRECTIONS

1. Break the eggs into the measuring-cup, and fill the cup to the top with milk.
2. Pour into a bowl, and beat the eggs and milk together with a dover beater.
3. Add the sugar, and beat again.
4. Melt the butter in a small saucepan; add the melted butter with the vanilla, and then the flour, to the mixture in the bowl, and beat for at least five minutes.
5. Add the baking-powder, and stir well.
6. Pour the mixture into a buttered cake-pan, place the pan in a cold oven, light the gas, and bake for about forty minutes, reducing the heat after the first fifteen minutes If a layer-cake is wanted, the baking must be done in two shallow cake-pans, and about fifteen minutes allowed for the baking.

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