The Blue Grass Cook Book

page 268

      TIP-TOP CAKE

  2 eggs,

  1 1/2 cup sugar,

  1 teaspoonful of soda dissolved in 1 cup of sweet milk,

  2 1/2 cups flour,

  2 teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar,

  2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter. Flavor to taste.

Cream sugar and butter, and then add beaten eggs, flour, etc., and bake in
layers.

      VELVET SPONGE CAKE

  6 eggs,

  2 cups sugar,

  1 cup of boiling water,

  3 cups flour,

  1 tablespoon baking-powder.

Separate the eggs and beat the yolks and add to them the sugar and beat till
very light. Add the whites, then the hot water, and last, beat the flour in very
lightly. Put together with icing and flavor with lemon. This recipe makes a nice
cake baked in a big mould or in layers or in muffin rings. Bake in a moderate
oven.

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