Shrove Tuesday Cake.
One quart of milk, 3 cups of flour, ½ teaspoonful of salt, 2 eggs, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Mix the baking powder thoroughly with the flour, add the flour to the milk, add the salt then the eggs, well beaten. Fry on a hot griddle in large cakes. Butter and spread with maple sugar in layers until you have a plate four or five inches high. Cut in pie shape and serve hot.