Show Butter Cake Cade Provides Popular Dessert for Average Dinner PLAIN CAKE third One cup butter 3 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 3 4 cups flour 3 I teaspoons teaspoons baking powder 4 1 t teaspoon asp spoon on salt 1 1 2 cup milk 1 1 2 1 teaspoon By SISTER MARY MARYN N NEA EA Service Writer Nearly catly everybody likes a homemade home made 6 cake and with fresh fruit on its w Wa Way ay and th the open season for Ice cream cre-am 3 Just sl around the corner it behooves the tho housewife to get her hand in for tor the making of this popular poPular popular pop poP- ular dessert lessert Tho rhe step first first step in the thc of a abutter abutter abutter butter cake Is s to cream tho the short short- ening This means to actually make stake It l the consistency of ot thick cream It L li is' done llone by rubbing it against a a. bowl with the back of ot- ofa a a. spoon A slotted plotted wooden one with witha a round handle is the best for tor this purpose Next the sugar sue Is sifted in a a. lIttie little lit lIt- tie the at a time Ume with constant stirring until the whole is a smooth creamy mass wath the sugar well wel dissolved l d. d Thoroughness in these first t two steps does much to insure a a. cako ako of ot fine texture Next NEtt add two or three tablespoons o of sifted flour unmixed with baking powder or salt Stir SUr this in welland well welland welland and scrape scrap off spoon and sides of ot mixing bowl with a spatula use se sea a spatula frequently all through the mixing process as it both shortens and makes more thorough the tho blending of Ingredients Stir in yolks of eggs beaten in a a. bowl with a dover beater until thick and lemon colored Beat Deat this mixture hard Add flour mixed and sifted with making powder end and salt Mid Salt alternately with milk The dry ingredients are are- added first to prevent lumping but I not more than third one-third is added 1 at t. t a time Add flavoring oring extract and beat beat well making large revolutions the size ot of the gowl Beat whites o of eggs until stiff but still shin shiny on a platter with a a. wire whisk This insures a large largo amount of air being beaten into them i Fold beaten whites whiles into batter To To do this slide the whites from fromm the platter into the mixing bowl Lift batter balter from front sides up over o whites to almost completely cover co them Then come up through the mixture from the tho bottom of ot the bowl bowel With the tho edge of ot the spoon actually folding batter over Do this until mixture is well blended This method preserves a. a as mush airas air airas airas as possible Unsalted fat should be used for fop oiling cako pans Flour is sifted over o the even coating coaling and the pan panis is shaken until evenly distributed Turn cake pan u upside down and tap sharply to remove any excess excess flour Pour batter baiter into inlo prepared pan scraping with spoon from sides ot of bowl and tipping UppIng bowl so that the batter will all go in at one time Spread evenly in pan and bake in ina in ina a moderato moderate oven o of degrees F F for ten minutes and Increase the tha heat to degrees 1 F. F for the next twenty minutes A loaf loa cake should bake ake at at the low temperature for twenty minutes and finish bakin at the higher temperature |