Feather Cake

FROM: The “Weis Recipe Outfit” Box on display at the Canton Township Historical Museum, Canton, Michigan (Donated: 1984), circa 1921.

Feather Cake...

1 cup powdered sugar
1 (heaping) tablespoonful butter
1 egg
1 cup flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
pinch of salt
1/2 cup milk
vanilla

Cream the powdered sugar and butter together. Beat egg until light. Add the milk to it and mix into butter and sugar. Sift flour, baking powder and salt three times and add to first mixture. Then add vanilla. Stir well and bake about 25 minutes in moderate oven. Ice with chocolate icing or souffle icing.