1 cup of sugar.
2 tablespoonfuls soft butter.
1 egg.
1/2 cup milk and water mixed.
1 1/2 cups sifted flour.
1 teaspoonful baking-powder.
Rub the butter and sugar to a cream. Beat the yolk of the egg stiff
and put that in; then add part of the milk and water, and part of
the flour and baking-powder, which has been sifted together;
next the vanilla, and last the stiff whites of the eggs, not
stirred in, but just lightly folded in. If you put them in heavily
and roughly, cake will always be heavy. Bake this in a buttered
biscuit-tin, and cut in squares when cold. It is nice covered
with caramel or
chocolate frosting.
Source:
A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl
