Cup Cake. Recipe No. 1.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 2 cupfuls; butter, 1 cupful; eggs, 4; flour, 3 cupfuls; baking powder, 1 teaspoonful; essence of almond, to taste.
Beat one cup of butter and two of sugar to cream; then add four eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, and three cupfuls of flour; flavor with almond to taste, and at last, just before putting into the oven, add one teaspoonful of baking powder. Bake in a quick oven, either in cups or pans.
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