Cheap Cream Cake

Original Recipe

One cup of sugar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one tablespoonful butter, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder; flavor to taste. Divide into three parts and bake in round shallow pans. Cream.--Beat one egg and one-half cup sugar together, then add one-quarter cup flour, wet with a very little milk and stir this mixture into one-half pint of boiling milk, until thick; flavor to taste. Spread the cream when cool between the cakes.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cup of sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup sweet milk
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tablespoonful butter
  • 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder
  • 3 parts and bake in round shallow pans

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Instructions

  1. 1

    One cup of sugar, one egg, one cup sweet milk, two cups flour, one tablespoonful butter, two heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder; flavor to taste.

  2. 2

    Divide into three parts and bake in round shallow pans. _Cream._--Beat one egg and one-half cup sugar together, then add one-quarter cup flour, wet with a very little milk and stir this mixture into one-half pint of boiling milk, until thick; flavor to taste.

  3. 3

    Spread the cream when cool between the cakes.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)