This section is from the book "Crumbs From Everybody's Table - A Cook Book", by Mrs R. L. Porter, Mrs H. S. Ball. Also available from Amazon: Crumbs from everybody's table: A cook book.
7 eggs (yolks),
1 large cupful of sugar, 1/2 cupful of milk,
2tablespooufuls of butter, 1 1/2 cupfuls of flour,
2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Stir butter, sugar and eggs ten minutes; sift baking powder with flour and add to the above; add milk and stir five minutes more; flavor to taste; bake in four layers and spread following icing between and on top:
Icing: Beat yolks of four eggs, add juice of one small lemon and thicken with powdered sugar to spread well. This is very nice to prepare after making angel cake as it will dispose of the yolks.
Mrs. Wm. Sutton, Pacific Grove.
2 cupfuls of sugar, 2 1/2 cupfuls of flour, 1/2 cupfuls of corn starch, 4 eggs, beaten separately, 3/4 cupful butter, 1 cupful milk, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder. Cream butter and sugar; add yolks of the eggs; beat all well together; add whites of the eggs last.
Mrs. G. P. Faw.
1 cupful of sugar,
1/2 cupful each of butter and milk,
2cupfuls of flour,
1 teaspoonful of baking powder,
3eggs, reserving white of one for frosting. Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks;
next the milk, then stir- in one cupful of flour and beat five minutes; add the other cup of flour with baking powder sifted with it. and stir three minutes. Last add whites of eggs, stirring them in gently. Flavor to taste.
Mrs. Wm. Sutton, Pacific Grove.
1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,
1/2 cupful each of butter and milk,
1 1/2 cupfuls of flour,
3eggs beaten separately.
1 large teaspoonful of baking powder.
Dissolve six tablespoonfuls chocolate, and one tablespoonful sugar in two tablespoonfuls scalded milk, and add to mixture and bake in large flat pan.
Frosting: Boil two cupfuls sugar, three-fourths cupful milk, and butter size of an egg, fifteen minutes; pour into a bowl, stir rapidly until it thickens, then add one tablespoonful of vanilla.
Mrs. W. E. Peck, Santa Cruz.
11 eggs (whites), 6 eggs (yolks),
1 1/2 cupfuls of granulated sugar measured after one sifting, 1 cupful of flour measured after one sifting, 1 teaspoonful of orange extract, 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Beat whites to a stiff froth and gradually beat in sugar; beat yolks in a similar manner and add to them the whites, sugar, and flavoring; finally stir in the flour, mix quickly and well; bake fifty minutes in slow oven.
Mrs. E. F. Hawkins.
6 eggs,
1 cupful each of butter, and milk.
2 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,
A cupfuls of flour,
3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. This makes a very large cake. For half rule make in three layers; in middle one put in cupful chopped raisins. Put together with icing.
Mrs. G. P. Kellogg.
1 cupful of butter,
1 1/2 cupfuls of sugar,
1/2 cupful of milk,
2 1/2 cupfuls of flour,
6 eggs,
1 teaspoonful of baking powder,
Flavor with vanilla.
Mrs. John Clements.
 
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