Hot Milk Cake

Creator:

Granny Murray

In Advance:

Preheat oven to 350º

Ingredients:

  • 3 eggs
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 3 TB butter
  • 1 1/2 cups cake flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Recipe:

  1. Beat eggs until very light
  2. Beat in salt, sugar, and vanilla
  3. Microwave butter and milk together until butter melts
  4. Beat into egg mixture
  5. Mix and sift flour and baking powder
  6. Beat into egg-milk mixture
  7. Pour into 2 greased and floured 8 inch cake pans
  8. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes

Notes:  

Frost with  buttercream icing (use recipe on box of confectioners sugar 10x) flavored with 3 TB frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed.

B’s Notes:

As a surprise for Aunt Betty’s 80th birthday I made her mother’s cake. She tasted it and said, ” Oh, you’ve made Alice Gladdings cake.”   “No,” I said, ” This is Granny’s hot milk cake.”

Alice Gladding, a childhood friend of Betty’s, was a home economist at URI. Apparently Granny had a reputation for being a lousy baker, except for her shortbread. Alice found this foolproof recipe and gave it to Granny. Apparently it was truly foolproof because my grandmother made it ( and no other cake ) all the time.