Basic Buttercake recipe

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The Women's Weekly Cookbook Plain Butter Cake recipe.
For baroquestar, who seemed to enjoy it last night.

• 125g butter


• 3/4 cup castor sugar


• 1 teaspoon vanilla


• 2 eggs


• 2 cups self-raising flour


• 1/2 cup milk

1. Preheat oven to 175C ("moderate")


2. Grease-and-flour or line a baking tin. (20cm round, or loaf)


3. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla together until light and fluffy


4. Add eggs one at a time, beat well


5. Fold in remaining ingredients as flour-milk-flour-milk-flour


6. Spoon into tin


7. Bake for 50-60 mins. Test with a skewer or knife blade


8. Let sit in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out onto cake rack to cool.

To make sultana cake, add 185g washed sultanas with the milk
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