This section is from the book "A New Book Of Cookery", by Fannie Merritt Farmer. See also: How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food.
1/2 cup butter (scant) 1 cup sugar Yolks 4 eggs.
2 cups flour.
3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup milk.
Cream butter and add gradually, while beating constantly, sugar; then add egg yolks, beaten until thick and lemon-colored. Mix and sift flour and baking powder and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Bake in a buttered shallow pan or layer cake tins, in a moderate oven.
1/2 cup butter 1 cup sugar Yolks 5 eggs 1 egg.
1 3/4 cups flour.
3 3/4 teaspoons baking powder.
¼ teaspoon salt.
1/2 cup milk.
Cream butter and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly; then add egg yolks and egg well beaten. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Turn into a buttered and floured cake tin and bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes. Remove from pan and cover with Cocoanut Coffee Frosting.
 
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