This section is from the book "Soyer's Standard Cookery", by Nicolas Soyer. Also available from Amazon: Soyer's Standard Cookery.
One-quarter cup of butter, one-quarter cup of sugar, one egg, one-quarter cup of milk, two cups of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Cream the butter; add sugar and egg well beaten; sift baking powder with flour, and add to the first mixture, alternating with milk. Bake in buttered tin gem pans twenty-five minutes.
 
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