Sweepstakes Burnt Sugar Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. sugar
2/3 c. butter
3 eggs
3 c. cake flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1 c. water
1 tsp. vanilla

Preparation

Make burnt sugar liquid by melting one cup of the sugar in pan on hot fire. When dark brown, add 1 cup boiling water and boil hard for 5 minutes.
Cream butter well, add sugar, then add 1/2 cup burnt sugar liquid. Beat eggs well, yolks and whites together. Add to batter and beat well.
Sift baking powder with flour and add alternately with water to the batter.
Add flavoring.
Bake in 2 layers in moderate oven.