Dolly Varden Cake("A Four-Layer Beauty") - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2/3 c. butter
3 c. flour
2 c. sugar
1 c. milk
3 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
flavoring or if left without imagination, use 1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. nutmeg
2 c. raisins
1/2 c. chopped nuts or finely slivered citron
1 Tbsp. molasses
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar until they are fluffy.
Add the eggs. Sift the flour, measure and sift with baking powder.
Add the flour mixture alternately with the milk to the egg-butter-sugar mixture.
Divide in half.
Bake 1/2 of the batter in two 8-inch layer cake pans and bake 20 to 25 minutes at 375\u00b0 or a moderate oven.
To the other half of the batter, add remaining ingredients. Bake this batter in two 8-inch cake pans.
Put layers together alternately with white icing.