The spices must be put in the flour, the syrup added after the sugar and butter are stirred together, then the eggs and milk, and lastly the flour. Mix the above alternately, in your pans, after having them buttered.—Mrs. W.
Cream Cake.
2 cupfuls of sugar.
3 cupfuls of flour.
½ cupful of butter.
3 eggs.
1 cupful of sour milk.
1 teaspoonful of soda.
2 teaspoonfuls of cream tartar.
Dissolve the soda in the milk, melt the butter and add it to the eggs. Add the sugar and cream tartar to the flour. Pour it all together in shallow pans that have been well greased. Bake twenty minutes.