Recipe: Everyday Cake (Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, 1949)

EVERYDAY CAKE

3 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon Arm & Hammer Brand or Cow Brand Baking Soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs, unbeaten
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup distilled vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Sift flour, soda, and salt together.

Cream shortening and add sugar gradually. Cream until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and beat thoroughly after each addition.

Combine milk, vinegar, and vanilla, and add alternately with the flour, one third at a time. Beat until smooth after each addition. Turn into 3 greased, 9-inch layer cake pans.

Bake. at 375 degree F. (moderate oven) for 25 to 30 minutes.

Makes 3 (9-inch) layers, 1 1/4 inches deep)
Source:
Recipe Booklet - New Fashioned Old Fashioned Recipes, Church and Dwight Co., Inc., 1949