Electric Cake Recipe

Instructions

1. Sift 1 pound of flour in bowl; add 1 1/4 cups yeast (1 1/4 cakes of compressed yeast), a tablespoon of molasses, and 1/4 cup of warm water.
2. Add these to the flour, working into a dough.
3. Let rise three hours.
4. Cream 1 pound of butter with 1 pound pulverized sugar; add 1/2 cup milk.
5. Beat 7 eggs light; add these to batter; sugar; mix alternately with 3/4 of a pound of flour.
6. Beat light, then add 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of ground mace, and half nutmeg, grated.
7. When the dough is light add it-to the cake batter; turn into a greased tin.
8. Bake one hour in moderate oven.