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Foundation or Plain Cake

½ cup butter or shortening

2 teaspoons baking-powder

1 cup sugar

½ cup milk

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

13/4 cup flour

Cream the butter or butter substitute, add sugar and continue creaming. Add well-beaten eggs. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Add flavoring. Bake in layers at 380° for twenty minutes. Any good filling and frosting may be used.

The batter may be varied by adding nuts, coconut, spices, etc., and may be baked as a loaf cake.

ONE-TWO-THREE-FOUR CAKE (Measure Cake) 1 cup butter or shortening 3 teaspoons baking-powder 2 cups sugar

1 cup milk

3 cups flour

Flavoring

4 eggs

Cream the butter or shortening and sugar, add eggs. Mix and sift flour and baking-powder and add alternately with the milk. Flavor as desired. Bake as loaf or layer cake at 380-400° F. for twenty to forty-five minutes.