Easy Cake - American Recipe

Easy Cake

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Bowl, Sifter, Wooden cake-spoon, Small saucepan, Dover beater, Cake-pan (with tube)

Classic American easy cake — simple, satisfying home baking.

Ingredients

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

Method

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.

Tags: milk, butter, egg, flour · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)