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Time for Baking Cake

Thin cakes and individual cakes require from twelve to fifteen minutes to bake; loaf cakes from thirty to sixty minutes according to size.

If the cake rises unevenly, the mixture is too thick or the oven is too hot.

If the oven seems too hot, when the cake is ready for the oven, put the cake in the oven, but do not close the oven door for the first five or ten minutes of baking. To grease Tins Warm pans slightly; brush with melted lard, suet, or clarified butter; cover bottom of pan only with tissue paper, then grease the paper.

Lard or suet is less apt to brown than butter, but many object to their use; if so, clarify the butter, by melting butter, letting stand until salt has settled to the bottom, then pouring off the liquid butter.