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 * MATERIALS

2 eggs

Milk

1½ cups flour

3 teaspoons baking-powder

1 teaspoon vanilla

5 tablespoons butter


 * UTENSILS

Bowl

Sifter

Wooden cake-spoon

Small saucepan

Dover beater

Cake-pan (with tube)


 * 1) Break the eggs into the measuring-cup, and fill the cup to the top with milk.
 * 2) Pour into a bowl, and beat the eggs and milk together with a dover beater.
 * 3) Add the sugar, and beat again.
 * 4) Melt the butter in a small saucepan; add the melted butter with the vanilla, and then the flour, to the mixture in the bowl, and beat for at least five minutes.
 * 5) Add the baking-powder, and stir well.
 * 6) Pour the mixture into a buttered cake-pan, place the pan in a cold oven, light the gas, and bake for about forty minutes, reducing the heat after the first fifteen minutes If a layer-cake is wanted, the baking must be done in two shallow cake-pans, and about fifteen minutes allowed for the baking.