Boston Favorite Cake

Ingredients

• ⅔ cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 3½ cups flour
• 5 teaspoons baking powder

Steps

1. Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, eggs beaten until light, then milk and flour mixed and sifted with baking powder. This recipe makes two loaves, or one-half the mixture may be baked in individual tins.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.