Lowney's Cook Book / Illustrated in Colors

by Maria Willett Howard

Orange Cakes

• ½ cup butter
  ¾ cup sugar
  ½ cup milk
  2¼ cups flour
  4 teaspoons baking powder
  2 eggs
  ½ cup candied orange peel

Cream butter; add sugar, flour in which baking powder has been sifted, alternately with milk; beat well, add well-beaten eggs and finely chopped orange peel. Drop from a teaspoon on to a buttered sheet; bake in a quick oven.