Layer Cake

Layer Cake

Ingredients:
1 cup sugar.
1/2 cup water.
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonfuls baking−powder.
1/2 cup butter.
2 1/2 cups flour.

Directions:
Teaspoonful vanilla.
Rub the butter to a cream in a deep bowl, and put in the sugar a little at a time, and rub this till it, too, creams.
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Then put in the beaten yolks of the eggs, and then the water. Beat the egg−whites well, and fold in half, then
add the flour, in which you have mixed and sifted the baking−powder, and then put in the vanilla and the rest
of the eggs.
Divide in two layers, or in three if the tins are small, and bake till a light brown.
FILLING FOR LAYER CAKES
Nut and Raisin Filling
Make the rule for plain icing, and add a half−cup of chopped raisins mixed with half a cup of chopped
almonds or English walnuts.
Fig Filling
Mix a cup of chopped figs with the same icing.
Marshmallow Filling
Chop a quarter of a pound of marshmallows; put them over the teakettle to get soft; make a plain icing and
beat them in.
Maple Filling
2 cups maple syrup.
Whites of 2 eggs.
Boil the syrup slowly till it makes a thread when you hold it up; then add it slowly to your beaten egg−whites,
beating till cold.
Orange Filling