Gold Cake

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

Gold Cake...

1/2 cup butter, 1 cup fine granulated sugar, 7 egg yolks, 1/2 cup milk, 1 and 3/4 cups flour, 2 level teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 level teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.

Beat butter and sugar till creamy, add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and then put in milk. Sift together flour, salt and baking powder twice, and add to other ingredients with the flavoring. Beat well and pour into a pan with loose bottom or removable sides. Bake in moderate oven about 3/4 hour.