The Toronto Cook Book

One-quarter cup butter, half cup sugar, one egg, half cup milk, one and a half cups flour, two and a half teaspoons baking powder; cream the butter, add sugar gradually and the eggs well beaten; sift flour and baking powder together, add alternately with first mixture; bake thirty minutes in shallow pan; spread with chocolate frosting. Lilly's Plain Layer Cake Three-quarters cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, one egg, three-quarters cup milk, two cups more or less of flour, three teaspoons baking powder; add flavoring and filling. Nut Cake Half a cup butter, one and a half scant cups sugar well creamed together, two eggs, three-quarters cup milk, two good cups flour, half cup chopped walnuts. Cakes, Frostings and Icings Chocolate Cake Half cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, two eggs, half cup milk, two large tablespoons grated chocolate, two small cups flour, one tablespoon of molasses, half teaspoonful soda. Excellent. Coffee Cake Three eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup coffee (steeped), half cup molasses, one teaspoon baking soda; grate some nutmeg with spices, three small cups flour, one small teaspoon each of cinnamon, allspice, and cloves, one cup of raisins. Excellent. Sponge Cake Four eggs, one cup sugar, one cup flour, one teaspoon baking powder, six teaspoons hot water, one teaspoon vanilla; beat sugar and yolks together; sift baking powder in flour, then mix with water, flavor with vanilla; beat whites of eggs separately and put in last. Bake twenty minutes. Sponge Cake Three eggs, half cup butter, one cup sugar, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon milk; beat sugar and butter together, beat eggs and then beat sugar, butter and eggs together; flavor with vanilla; sift baking powder in the flour and then sift in to mixture. Bake twenty minutes. Fruit Cake Three eggs, cup sugar, one cup molasses, half cup butter, one cup currants one cup raisins, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon baking soda, mixed spice, salt, and flour to thicken. Marble Cake White Part — One cup butter, three cups white sugar, five cups flour, half cup sweet milk, half teaspoon baking soda, whites of eight eggs, flavor with lemon. Dark Part — One cup butter, two cups brown sugar, one cup molasses, one cup sour milk, one teaspoon baking soda, four cups flour, yolks of eight eggs and one whole egg, spice of all sorts; put in pan first a layer of dark, then a layer of white, and so on, finishing with a dark layer. Bake in hot oven. The Toronto Cook Book Walnut Cake One-half cup butter, half cup sugar; cream butter and sugar; one and a half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, half cup milk, half pound chopped nuts and dredge with flour, two eggs. This same mixture answers for layer cake; omitting nuts. Jelly Roll Whites of four eggs and yolks of three, one cup granulated sugar, one cup Rainbow Flour, one teaspoonsful Baking Powder, three tablespoonful cold water, pinch of salt. Beat whites, add sugar gradually, add yolks well beaten, then water, fold flour in gradually. After baking turn on a wet cloth and roll. Sunshine Cake