Here is an old handwritten recipe on a white index card found in a large box of recipes. You can view a larger image of this recipe by clicking the picture below.
One Egg Wonder Cake
2 cups sifted Swans D Cake Flour*
2 tsp Cal. BPdw.**
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup butter or other shortening
1 cup sugar
1 egg unbeaten
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
Sift flour once, measure, add B.Pdw. and salt; sift 3 times. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, cream until light. Add egg and beat well. Add flour alternately with milk in small amounts, beating after each addition. Add vanilla. Bake in greased 8x8x2 in. pan in moderate oven (350°F) 50 min.
*RecipeCurio Note: Swans D Cake Flour would be Swans Down Cake Flour
**RecipeCurio Note: Cal. BPdw would be a brand of baking powder, I’m not sure what “Cal.” stands for though. If you know, please do leave a comment below :).
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7 Responses to One Egg Wonder Cake – Handwritten Recipe Card
I think it’s Calumet.
I bet you’re right pfirsch, thanks for the help!
Thank you for this one egg wonder cake..our mom used to make this all the time.. it would be hot and soft right out of the over. we ate it uniced with melted butter on top.. i will make this
It stands for Calumet. You will see it in other recepies for other foods that were being made in WW2…
This is the Calumet One Egg Cake recipe that appeared in my mother’s Home Economics text book.. she graduated in 1935. We’ve used some of those recipes continually.. we still do, in fact. If you increase the butter (real butter) to 1/2 cup this makes a great shortcake.
Thank you for this. Mom made it in a coal stove
oven. We used to eat with homemade blackberry
jelly on top. Tastes like jelly roll.
If you google:Cake,Calumet One-Egg, the recipe is identical except for the butter. It is from the Calumet (baking powder) cookbook (1933) which my mother used. Sometimes I exchange the vanilla for 2 t almond extract. Great for strawberry short-cake.
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