Apple Cake
Butter the size of one egg, one teacup sugar, four eggs, well beaten, one cup sifted flour, one heaping teaspoon baking powder, bake in four layers.
Four hundred recipes from Auburn, New York, 1881 — the oldest cookbook here, and the only one written by a woman for herself.
Butter the size of one egg, one teacup sugar, four eggs, well beaten, one cup sifted flour, one heaping teaspoon baking powder, bake in four layers.