Salad Dressing Cake

Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.

Aligned right-column alternate formula

Green Recipe Box right-column reading

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Sugar - 2
  • 1 " Salad Dressing - 1
  • 1 " Lukewarm water - 2
  • 2 " Sifted flour - 4
  • 1 tsp. soda - 2
  • 1 " cocoa - 2
  • Dash of salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla - 2

Directions

  1. Mix as following:
  2. Bake for 30 min. in two 8" or 9" layer cake pans.

Timing: 30 min.

Temperature: Lukewarm Water; oven with no degree setting

Equipment: oven; two 8" or 9" layer cake pans

As written

oven

Arwilda’s changes

  • Added “Sifted flour”

Left-column one-cup formula

Green Recipe Box left-column reading

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Sugar - 2
  • 1 " Salad Dressing - 1
  • 1 " Lukewarm water - 2
  • 2 " Sifted flour - 4
  • 1 tsp. soda - 2
  • 1 " cocoa - 2
  • Dash of salt
  • 1 tsp. vanilla - 2

Directions

  1. Mix as following:
  2. Bake for 30 min. in two 8" or 9" layer cake pans.

Timing: 30 min.

Temperature: Lukewarm Water; oven with no degree setting

Equipment: oven; two 8" or 9" layer cake pans

As written

oven

Arwilda’s changes

  • Added “Sifted flour”

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Aligned formula quantities

Green Recipe Box left-column reading
1 cup sugar; 1 cup salad dressing; 1 cup lukewarm water; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon each soda, cocoa, and vanilla; dash salt.
Green Recipe Box right-column reading
2 cups sugar; 1 cup salad dressing; 2 cups lukewarm water; 4 cups flour; 2 teaspoons each soda, cocoa, and vanilla; no alternate salt quantity shown.

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