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Burnt Sugar Cake

Take one cup of granulated sugar, place in a skillet and let it melt. Then pour in boiling water and stir utnil it is a thick syrup. Now 1 cup sugar, 1 of good rich milk, lump butter, size of an egg, 3 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, 2 tablespoonfuls burnt sugar, 2 eggs beaten well, flour enough to make stiff as a common cake. Sift the baking powder into the flour. Flavor with vanilla extract. To white icing add 2 spoons of burnt sugar and put between and on top of layers. This is a fourlayer cake.