Jelly Cake. Recipe No. 1.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ½ lb.; milk, 1 cupful; eggs, 6; cream-tartar, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; flour, 1 lb.; jelly.
Stir to a light cream one pound of sugar and half a pound of butter; add one cupful of milk, six eggs beaten to a froth, one teaspoonful of cream-tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, and one pound of flour. Spread over buttered tins to the thickness of a quarter of an inch, bake till brown, and when done pile them on a plate, and put a layer of jelly between.
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