Busy Day Cake
(3 eggs)
3 cups sifted Swans Down Cake Flour
4 teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder
¼ teaspoon salt
1⅔ cups sugar
½ cup softened butter or other shortening
3 eggs, well beaten
1¼ cups milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder, salt, and sugar, and sift together three times. Add butter. Combine eggs, milk, and vanilla, and add to flour mixture, stirring until all flour is dampened. Then beat vigorously 1 minute. Bake in three greased 9-inch layer pans in moderate oven (375°F.) 25 minutes. Spread Orange Butter Frosting ([page 17]) between layers and on top of cake.