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Butter Sponge Cake

1 pound of granulated sugar. 10 eggs. 8 or 10 ounces of butter. 1 cupful of milk--1/2 pint. 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 1 1/2 pounds of flour. Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes as if for sponge cake, melt the butter and beat it in, add the milk, then the powder and then the flour and stir up well. Flavor if desired.

If I had to lose the knowledge of all kinds of cakes but one I should choose the above. It is comparatively cheap; when fresh it is as good as any, and answers more purposes than any other mixture made. In the exigencies that often overtake us when the hotel business is good, I have frequently begun when the doors were just opened for dinner, and had large sheets of this light cake 1 or 2 inches thick and nicely glazed with sugar baked on top ready to send in when the plates were changed either as pudding or cake--about 25 minutes from the time of beginning-which could not be done with any richer mixture.