1-2-3-4 Cake

A traditional American recipe for a 1-2-3-4 cake, a simple form of yellow cake.

Ingredients

Preheat oven to 175 °C (350 °F)
Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.
Beat in the eggs.
Gradually sift in the dry ingredients, alternating with small additions of the milk.
Transfer to a greased and floured baking pan.
Bake at 175 °C (350 °F), until a skewer inserted shows no moist crumbs.

You will need these things:

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The ingredients. (Salt not shown here)
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Cooking implements: beaters, large bowl, cup measurement and large cake tin. Scales optional.
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An oven, of course!

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1. Preheat your oven.
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2. Cream the butter and sugar together.
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3. Crack the eggs in, and beat them in too
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After beating in the eggs, it looks like this
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4. Now get your flour and milk
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5. Mix a little bit of flour in
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6. Then a little bit of milk
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Repeat 5 and 6 until done. By now the mixture will be very smooth
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7. Pour the mixture into a greased and floured cake tin, then pop it in the oven
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8. Checking if the cake is "done": put a sharp knife or skewer into the centre of the cake
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If the knife is dirty - the mixture is still wet - put it back in! (This was after about 15 minutes, it takes a lot longer)
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Finally, it's done! Notice how brown the top is, due to the high sugar content