This section is from the book "Pipe Organ Cook Book", by Ladies of First Presbyterian Church Aledo, Illinois. Also available from Amazon: The Way to Cook.
One cupful of sugar, half cupful of butter, half cupful of sweet milk, two cupfuls of flour, two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; bake in layers. Put the following mixture between while boiling hot: One pint of grated apple, juice of one lemon, one cupful of sugar, one egg. Boil till thick.
Mrs. C. K. Marquis.
Two and a half cupfuls of light brown sugar, one cupful sour cream, half cupful butter, three cupfuls flour, six eggs (reserve whites of two for frosting), one teaspoonful of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, two teaspoonfuls of cloves, one teaspoonful of ginger, half teaspoonful of nutmeg; bake in layers with frosting between. Sweet milk and baking powder can be used instead of sour milk and soda.
Mrs. Mary Unangst.
Break two eggs into a cup and fill it up with cream, one cupful of sugar, two cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, sifted together, pinch of salt, flavor with lemon; bake in layers. Put together with lemon custard.
Mrs. M. Todd.
One and a half cups of sugar, half cup of butter beaten to a cream, then add one cupful of milk, and two cupfuls of flour with one heaping teaspoonful of baking powder sifted well through it; add last the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
One cup of sweet milk; when it begins to boil, add, stirring all the time, half cupful of milk in which the yolks of the eggs and two tablespoons of corn starch and the same of sugar have been mixed. Flavor to suit the taste and spread between layers. Mrs. Emma Boyd.
Five eggs, well beaten, three tablespoons of cold water, one tablespoon of melted butter, one and a half cupfuls of sugar, one and a half cups of flour, flavoring, half teaspoon of baking powder. Mrs. J. T. Mardock.
One cup butter, two cups flour, one cup corn starch, one cup sweet milk, three teaspoons baking powder, two cups sugar, whites of eight eggs, flavoring to suit taste: beat butter to a cream, add the flour and stir thoroughly together, then add the corn starch and milk in which the baking powder has been dissolved. Lastly add the well beaten whites of eggs mixed with the sugar, flavor to taste. Bake in layers and put together with boiled frosting. Mrs. Mattie Gillespie.
One cup of butter, three cups of sugar, three cups of flour, one and a half cups sweet milk, three teaspoons of baking powder and the whites of ten eggs; bake in layers.
Nira McLaughlin.
Two cups sugar, one-third cup butter, whites of four eggs, beaten stiff, one cup sweet milk, two and a half cups pastry flour, two teaspoons baking powder, flavor to taste and bake in two layers. Use any filling desired. Mrs. Bert Graham.
One cup sugar, two-thirds cup butter, three eggs, one cup milk, two and a half cups flour, one teaspoon baking powder, one-fourth cup chocolate, half cup English walnuts.
One and a half tablespoons butter, half cup cocoa, one and a fourth cups powdered sugar, one-fourth cup milk, half teaspoon vanilla. Mrs. J. E. Moore.
 
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