My mother used a cake mix. She was not much on baking. We never got a store bought cake, it was made at home. She usually used a yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
She would pour the ingredients in her yellow bowl, that was a set of 3, all different sizes. We did not have an electric mixer. Most people didn't have one at that time.
On the box it was say, turn 300 times till smooth. You would make a complete turn around the bowl and that would be one turn. You did that 300 times. That's how we mixed a cake.
Years later it would give the Turn instructions and Mixer instructions (mix on high for 3 minutes..ect.) as they became popular and then the Turn instructions were left off eventually.
Once the cake were in the pans and in the oven, the next danger point was no loud noises! A slammed door, running up the stairs ect. could cause a cake to fall. It will not rise and the cake will be flat. You were not supposed to eat a flat cake because it could upset your stomach.
I remember at least once, running up the stairs into the house and my mother yelling at me as she headed towards the oven to see the flat cakes.
You don't have to worry about that now when baking a cake.
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