Gold Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• yolks of eight eggs
• one cup granulated sugar
• scant half cup butter
• half cup sweet milk
• one and one-half cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one cup sugar
• five tablespoonfuls water
• white of one egg

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar thoroughly, beat yolks to a stiff froth and stir into butter and sugar.

2. 2

   Add milk, then flour and stir hard.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven.

4. 4

   For frosting, boil sugar and water until it will hair, then pour slowly into beaten egg white and beat until partly cool.

5. 5

   Frost the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOLD LOAF CAKE. Mrs. Wm. H. Harmon, 158 N. Daly street, Los Angeles.— Take yolks of eight eggs, one cup granu- lated sugar, scant half cup butter, half cup sweet milk, one and one-half cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar thoroughly, beat yolks to a stiff froth and stir thoroughly into butter and sugar, put in milk,' then flour and stir hard, bake in moderate oven. For frosting use one cup sugar, five tablespoonfuls water, white of one egg

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