Quick Cake
One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, stir them to a cream and add one well beaten egg, two-thirds cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, flavor with lemon or vanilla.
Four hundred recipes from Auburn, New York, 1881 — the oldest cookbook here, and the only one written by a woman for herself.
One cup sugar, one tablespoon butter, stir them to a cream and add one well beaten egg, two-thirds cup milk, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, flavor with lemon or vanilla.