Cakes With Butter. General Rules For Mixing

Measure all ingredients, and grease the pans. Mix and sift dry-ingredients except sugar. Cream butter by continued rubbing against the bowl with a wooden spoon. (Any edible fat may be used in place of butter.) Add the sugar gradually and continue creaming until mixture is smooth. Beat yolk of egg until thick and lemon-colored; add to the butter and sugar. Add the flour and milk alternately; add vanilla. Beat whites until stiff and dry; cut and fold into the mixture. When fruit or nuts are used, save out a little flour to cover them and add to the cake just before the whites of the eggs. Fill greased pans half full, with sides well filled and a slight depression in the center.

General Rules For Baking

Temperature of oven - moderate. Time depends on thickness of cake.

a. cup cakes, 12-15 minutes layer cakes, 20-30 minutes loaf cakes, 30-40 minutes b. quarters of time

1. begins to rise

2. continues rising; begins to brown

3. finishes browning

4. shrinks from pan

Cake

Care after Baking.

a. loosen edges with knife b. invert on cooler c. turn right side up after a few minutes

Standard Cake

Ingredients:

1/4 c. butter

1 c. sugar

2 eggs

1/2 c. milk

1 1/2 c. flour

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. lemon juice or 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Modifications:

Spice

1 tsp. spice sifted with the flour

Nut

1 c. chopped nuts added before folding in the whites

Chocolate

2 oz. melted and added after adding the yolks

Currant

1/2 c. added before folding in the whites

Ribbon

Double the recipe and bake 2/3 as 2 plain layers. To remaining 1/3 add 1 tbsp. molasses, 1 tsp. spice, and 2/3 c. raisins.

White Cake

Ingredients:

1/2 c. butter 1 c. sugar whites 4 eggs

2 c. flour

4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 c. milk

1/2 tsp. almond extract

Spanish Cake

Ingredients:

1/2 c. butter

1 c. sugar 1/2 c. milk

2 eggs

1 3/4 c. flour

3 tsp. baking powder 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. salt

Chocolate Cake I

Ingredients:

3 oz. chocolate

1/2 c. sugar

1/2 c. milk

Boil until thickens to a paste and cool. Add to:

1/2 c. butter 1 c. sugar

2 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

2 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 c. milk

Chocolate Cake II

Ingredients:

2 oz. chocolate

4 tbsp. butter

1/2 c. boiling water

Boil until it thickens to a paste and cool

Add

1 c. sugar 1 c. flour

1 egg 3/4 tsp. soda

1/4 c. sour milk

Lady Baltimore Cake

Ingredients:

1 c. butter 2 c. sugar 1 c. milk

3 1/2 c. flour

2 tsp. baking powder whites 6 eggs

Lady Baltimore Cake Filling 3 c. sugar 1 c. water

Boil to thread stage and pour on stiffly beaten whites of 3 eggs. When begins to thicken add 1 c. chopped raisins, pecans, and figs.