BIRTHDAY CAKE
- 1 cup butter
- 1½ cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 5 eggs
- ⅓ cup milk
- 2½ cups pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price’s Baking Powder
Cream butter thoroughly; beat in sugar, a little at a time. Add flavoring and yolks of eggs beaten until pale yellow. Add milk, beating in a little at a time. Beat egg whites until light. Sift flour with baking powder three times. Add alternately small portions of egg whites and flour and stir mixture until light and fluffy. Bake in greased loaf pan in moderate oven (350°) about one hour. Cover with following ornamental frosting:
- 1½ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup water
- 2 egg whites
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon flavoring extract, half lemon, half vanilla
Boil sugar and water, without stirring until syrup spins a thread (238°); add slowly to beaten egg whites; add salt and flavoring; beat until smooth and stiff enough to spread. Put over boiling water, stirring continually until icing grates slightly on bowl. Spread on top and sides of cake.
All measurements are level
So saying, Hun gave her a can
Of bright and sunny yellow.
“With this you easily can make
Good things for this young fellow.
“And Madam, ’stead of coaxing
Boys and girls to eat, ’tis wiser
To add a cake or cooky
As a little appetizer!”
From the day that he met Hun Bun
Little Bill began to gain.
His appetite’s tremendous
And the reason’s very plain.
His mother makes him good things
Of which he eats his fill,
For everything she puts in them
Is good for little Bill.
Dr. Price’s Baking Powder
And King Hun Bun’s wondrous book
Have made of Billy’s mother
An exceedingly good cook.
He eats his lunch and breakfast
Each meal he finds a treat.
The other fellows watch their step
When Bill comes down the street.
Cakes like he met in Bunbury
His mother makes him now
And if YOU want some too, this book
Will tell YOUR MOTHER how!
