Apple Cake
2 level teaspoons Calumet Baking Powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup butter or lard Yolk or whole of 1 egg 2 tablespoons sugar 2/3 cup milk Sift flour, then measure; add baking powder, salt and sugar, and sift three times; chop shortening in with spoon; preferably with knives or knife and fork; beat yolk, add milk and mix together; spread in square tin about 3/8-inch thick; cover with melted butter.
Core, quarter and slice in eighths 5 tart apples, lay in rows, lapping each other, cover with melted butter, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 3 tablespoons of sugar. 31/2 cups pastry flour