American Medium Mrs. F.L. Gillette
Cup Cakes
receipt_long
Instructions
- 1
Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of milk, three cups and a half of flour and four eggs, half a teaspoonful of soda, large spoon cream of tartar; stir butter and sugar together and add the beaten yolks of the eggs, then the milk, then flavoring and the whites.
- 2
Put cream of tartar in flour and add last.
- 3
Bake in buttered gem-pans, or drop the batter, a teaspoonful at a time, in rows on flat buttered tins.
- 4
To this recipe may be added a cup of English currants or chopped raisins; and also another variety of cake may be made by adding a half cup citron sliced and floured, a half cupful of chopped almonds and lemon extract.