remove the scorched part.

Turn the cakes to cool upon a sieve or wire cake-rack. Do not attempt
to ice a cake until it is cool and then coat the entire cake over with
a plain water icing.


A SMALL POUND CAKE

Four ounces of butter,
One cupful of sugar.

Place in a warm bowl and cream until light and frothy; now add yolks
of four eggs and beat well for ten minutes, then add

Three cupfuls of flour,
Four level teaspoonfuls baking powder,
One cupful of milk,
One teaspoonful of nutmeg.

Beat hard for fifteen minutes and then carefully fold in the stiffly
beaten white of an egg and then pour into a prepared pan and bake for
sixty minutes in slow oven.


A LARGE POUND CAKE

One and one-half cupfuls of sugar,
Eight ounces of shortening.