This section is from the "The National Cook Book" book, by Marion Harland And Christine Terhune Herrick. Also available from Amazon: National Cook Book
"One cup of butter, two of sugar, three of flour, and four eggs." Thus ran the formula that fixed the proportions of "one, two, three, and four cake " in our grandmothers' minds. When we add a cupful of milk and a heaping teaspoonful of Cleveland's Baking Powder we better the recipe.
You may vary it by beating into the batter, alternately with the flour, half a cupful of raisins, seeded and halved, then dredged with flour, or the same quantity of cleaned currants, also floured.
 
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