One-Egg Cake Recipe And Nine Variations Vintage Recipe Thursday -- 2nd Weekly Edition

Vintage Recipe Thursday is meant to preserve out-of-print, copyright-free recipes from old cookbooks, magazines, newspapers or your own original vintage family recipes. Want to participate? Get the details by clicking to the Vintage Recipe Thursday Homepage. I post recipes from the Searchlight Recipe Book, first published in 1931. My 16th printing is from 1943.

Today, I chose the one-egg cake recipe and its nine variations because it is so versatile, easy, fast and inexpensive to bake. Even if you are a beginning baker, you can master this single cake recipe, and with the nine additional variations, you will have ten cakes to serve friends and family. It's a Depression Era recipe, and it will cost next to nothing to make, so that's a great thing in this current economy too.

One-Egg Cake Recipe (Master Recipe)
1/4 Cup Shortening (or butter)
2/3 Cup Sugar
1 Egg
1 Teaspoon Vanilla Flavoring (or real vanilla)
1 1/2 Cups Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 Cup Milk

Cream shortening and sugar. Add unbeaten egg. Add flavoring. Beat thoroughly. Sift flour, measure, and sift with salt and baking powder. Add alternatively with milk to creamed shortening and sugar. Pour into well-oiled loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven (375 F.) 35 minutes.

Tea Cakes (Variation 1)
Prepare one-egg cake batter, and bake in small muffin tins. Ice with butter icing. Food coloring in a number of the pastel shades may be added to portions of the butter icing.

Short Cake (Variation 2)
Prepare one-egg cake. Bake in shallow pan. Cut in rounds. Split each round and place sweetened fresh fruit or well-drained and sweetened cooked fruit between the layers and on the top. Serve with whipped cream. Garnish with some of the fruit section.

Cream Cake (Variation 3)
Prepare one-egg cake. Bake in shallow pan. When cake cools cover with a layer of thinly sliced bananas. Serve with slightly sweetened whipped cream, a cream filling, or a soft custard.

Chocolate Cake (Variation 4)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Melt 1 square of unsweetened chocolate over hot water. Add to creamed shortening, sugar and well-beaten egg. Complete recipe in manner indicated.

Spice Cake (Variation 5)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Add 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon cloves, and 1/2 cup raisins dredged in 2 tablespoons of the flour. Pour into well-oiled loaf pan and bake in moderate oven (375 F.) 35 minutes.

Raisin Cake (Variation 6)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Add 1/2 cup chopped raisins which have been dredged in 2 tablespoons of the flour. Pour into well-oiled loaf pan and bake in moderate oven (375 F.) 35 minutes.

Upside-Down Cake (Variation 7)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Cover the bottom of shallow cake pan with waxed paper. Cover with 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and add a layer of slices of well-drained pineapple or other cooked fruit. Cover with cake batter. Bake in moderate oven (375 F.) 30 minutes.

Quick Coffee Cake (Variation 8)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Add 1 tablespoon grated lemon rind. Pour into well-oiled loaf pan. Sprinkle generously with sugar and cinnamon. Bake in moderate oven (375 F.) about 35 minutes.

Washington Pie (Variation 9)
Prepare one-egg cake batter. Pour into 2 well-oiled layer cake pans. Bake in moderate oven (375 F.) about 20 minutes. Put layers together with cream filling. Sprinkle top with powdered sugar. Serve with whipped cream.

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