This recipe is from The Teen Guide To Homemaking, a home economics book from 1961
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Quick – Mix Gold Cake
Two 8 inch Layers
2 ¼ cups sifted cake flour
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 ¼ cups sugar
¾ cup softened shortening
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla or 2 teaspoons grated orange rind
- Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
- Add shortening, ½ cup milk, and unbeaten eggs, and stir lightly until flour mixture is dampened.
- Beat vigorously with mixing spoon or in an electric mixer at medium speed for 1 minute.
- Add remaining milk and vanilla or grated orange rind, and beat for 2 minutes.
- Pour into 2 greased cake pans.
- Bake in moderate oven (350 degree F) for 30 minutes, or until top of cake is brown and springs back to the touch.
- Cool pans on cake rack.
- Remove cake, and cool on cake rack before frosting.