This section is from the book "The Orange Judd Cook Book", by Adeline O. Goessling. Also available from Amazon: The Orange Judd Cook Book.

Afternoon Tea Cakes.
Cream well together 2 heaping tablesp butter and 1 cup granulated sugar. Drop in, one at a time, 3 unbeaten eggs, beating very hard after each is added. Mix together and then sift 1/2 cup, each, of pastry flour and corn starch, 1/4 teasp salt and 1 1/2 tablesp baking powder. Add this to the first mixture, alternately, with 1/2 cup milk. Lastly add a scant teasp pure vanilla flavoring and bake in muffin pans. When cool ice with the following: Mix well 3/4 cup butter with 2 cups brown sugar find 2 heaping tablesp cinnamon. Put on top of each cake. Another decoration for the cake is whipped cream forced through a pastry bag and tube in fancy designs, on the top and sides. Or chocolate icing or any other preferred icing may be used.
 
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