Butter Sponge Cake

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  Butter Sponge CakeYield: 2 8-inch cake layers

  Ingredients  

• 2    eggs
• 1/4  teaspoon  salt
• 1  cup  sugar
• 1  teaspoon  vanilla
• 1/2  cup  milk
• 1  tablespoon  butter, or margarine
• 1  cup sifted enriched flour
• 1  teaspoon  baking powder
  

  Directions  

• Set oven for moderate, 350f.
• Beat eggs until very light and thick.
• Beat in salt, sugar, and vanilla.
• Heat milk and butter to boiling point; beat in.
• Mix and sift flour and baking powder.
• Beat in.
• Bake in greased square cake pan, 8 by 8 by 2 inches, about 30 minutes.
• Cool on cake rack.
• Frost as desired.
• Or bake at same temperature in two greased 8-inch layer cake pans, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Variation for boston cream pie: put layers together with vanilla or chocolate cream filling made with pudding mix, dust top layer with confectioners' sugar.
• Variation for washington pie: put layers together with raspberry jam, dust top with confectioners' sugar.