Plain Cake for Loaf or Layer Cake

By mitzzy

Ingredients

• 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 3 teaspoons Oleo or butter 1/2 cup milk 1/2
• teaspoon salt 1-1/2 cups flour 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon
• vanilla
• Method--Beat eggs light, add sugar, butter, milk, salt and all but 2
• tablespoons of the flour. Beat well, add vanilla, then add the remainder of the
• flour with the baking powder, sifted together. Bake in loaf or layer cake
• pans.
• That was for easyplain cake .
• PLAIN CAKE
• 2-1/2 lbs. meal, 1 breakfastcupful sultanas, 1 oz. ground bitter almonds, 3 oz.
• chopped sweet almonds, 2 eggs, 3 oz. butter or 1/2 teacupful of oil, 6 oz.
• sugar and 1 teaspoonful cinnamon, 1/4 oz. yeast, milk to moisten the cake.
• Dissolve the yeast in a cup of warm water, 100 degrees Fahrenheit in winter, 85
• degrees in summer; make a batter of the yeast and water, with two spoonfuls of
• the meal, and stand it on a cool place of the stove to rise; do not let it get
• hot, as this will spoil the yeast. Meanwhile prepare the fruit and almonds, mix
• the meal, fruit, butter (or oil), sugar, cinnamon and eggs; then add the yeast
• and as much lukewarm milk as is required to moisten the cake. The dough should
• be fairly firm and wet. Let the dough rise in front of the fire. Fill into
• greased cake tins and bake for 1-1/2 hours.

Preparation

Step 1

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