Gold or Lemon Cake

Name: Gold or Lemon Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: Two CUPS of sugar; half a cup of butter; the yolks of six eggs; one whole one; the grated rind and juice of a lemon or orange; half a teaspoonful of soda; half a cup of sweet milk; four cups of sifted flour

From Original White House Cookbook, 1887

Serves 10

This makes a more suitable lemon cake than if made with the white parts of eggs added.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 189. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOLD OR LEMON CAKE. 1 Two CUPS of sugar, half a cup of butter, the yolks of six eggs and one whole one, the grated rind and juice of a lemon or orange, half a teaspoon- ful of soda dissolved in half a cup of sweet milk, four cups of sifted flour

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