How To Make Birthday Cake

2 heaping table-spoonfuls butter

6 heaping table-spoonfuls sugar l/2 cup milk

1 1/2 cups flour

1/2 lemon

2 eggs

2 teaspoonfuls baking powder

3 mixing bowls Wooden spoon Measuring cup Tablespoon Teaspoon Egg-beater Baking pan Flour sifter Lemon squeezer Knife

Take 2 eggs, break them carefully, and put the whites in one bowl and the yolks in another. Beat the whites first, so as not to soil your beater and then beat the yolks.

Put 6 heaping tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar in a third bowl, add to this 2 heaping tablespoonfuls of butter, which has been softened by warming it on the stove.

Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until they are well mixed and light.

Add the yolks of the eggs and beat again for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 teaspoonful of salt.

Sift some flour and measure l1/2 cupfuls into the empty bowl. Have ready 1/2 cup of milk.

Cut a lemon in half and squeeze one-half carefully, through a squeezer, on the sugar and egg and butter. Mix them together with a spoon.

Now add your flour and milk a little at a time and beat the whole until it is quite smooth and free from lumps.

Before doing anything more examine your oven and if you want to make a loaf cake have a moderate oven. If you are going to make little cakes you will want a hot one.

Butter your tins well, using either a big tin for loaf cake or a muffin tin for little ones.

Measure 2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder and add them to the dough. Last of all add the beaten whites of the eggs, mix them in with a fork, and turn the dough at once into the buttered tin.

Never let cake dough stand after the baking powder is in it.

If you bake it in one loaf it will take about 3/4 of an hour.

Twenty minutes is generally right for small cakes.

Use the straw test when you think your cake is done, but do not keep opening the oven door. Do not open it at all for some time after the cake is in.

When it is done turn out onto a plate to cool.

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