This recipe appears to have been carefully cut out of a magazine because it has graphics on the backside. However, it is on thick paper similar to what would be used for product packaging. Since this recipe calls for a specific brand name of baking powder, it was probably on the package of baking powder. There are a few hints that indicate this recipe is probably pre-1940s: 1) the paper is aged; 2) it calls for butter (most post-WWII recipes I've found used margarine instead of butter); and 3) the described baking pan is a "tin" or "iron spider" which seem like older terms. I looked up what an "iron spider" is and found that it is a cast iron skillet (I saw some with raised legs).
Ingredients for cake:
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 cups pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Ingredients for frosting:
- 2 cups confectioner's sugar [powdered sugar]
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons hot milk or cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Additional decorations:
- animal crackers
- food coloring
- pink candles
Instructions for cake:
- Cream butter
- Add sugar slowly and beaten egg
- Beat batter until very light and fluffy
- Sift flour and baking powder together and add a little at a time alternately with the milk
- Add flavor [vanilla extract]
- Put in small round greased tin or iron spider
- Bake in moderate oven at 350°F for about 45 minutes
- Turn out of pan and cool
Instructions for frosting and decorating:
- Add butter to hot milk (or cream)
- Add slowly to sugar until the right consistency to spread
- Ice top and side of cake
- While icing is still soft, stand animal crackers, which have been decorated with daintily color icing, and pink candles alternately around the edge of cake
Makes a loaf about 8-inch in diameter
No comments:
Post a Comment