A Good Cup-cake.
One cup of butter.
Two cups of sugar—powdered.
Four eggs.
One cup of sweet milk.
One teaspoonful of vanilla.
One half-teaspoonful of mace.
Three cups of prepared flour, or the same quantity of family-flour with one even teaspoonful of soda and two of cream-tartar, sifted twice with it.
Two teaspoonfuls of baking powder will serve the same end. Mix as directed in “Practical Preliminaries,” and bake in small tins.