English Walnut Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups sugar
• three cups flour
• one cup milk
• three-quarters cup butter
• three-quarters cup nuts broken fine and floured
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one teaspoon vanilla
• three eggs well beaten together

Method

1. 1

   Bake in biscuit pans, making two layers.

2. 2

   Take the whites of four eggs, mix with one and one-quarter pounds powdered sugar, juice of half a lemon, and one teaspoon vanilla.

3. 3

   Beat until it will thread off.

4. 4

   Spread on the first layer, place the second on top, ice, and mark in squares.

5. 5

   Place half a nut on each square.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 90. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

English Walnut Cake. — Two cups sugar, three cups flour, one cup milk, three-quarters cup butter, three-quarters cup nuts broken fine and floured, two teaspoons baking powder, one tea- spoon vanilla, three eggs well beaten together. Bake in bis- cuit pans, making two layers. Take whites four eggs, one and one-quarter pounds powdered sugar, juice of half lemon and one teaspoon vanilla

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