Golden Orange Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cupfuls sugar
• 5 eggs or yolks of 10 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 4 cupfuls flour
• 1 teaspoonful orange extract
• 1 cupful Crisco
• 1 cupful milk
• 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder

Method

1. 1

   For cake.

2. 2

   Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well beaten, orange extract, and flour and baking powder alternately with milk.

3. 3

   Mix carefully and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in moderate oven about one hour.

4. 4

   This mixture may be baked in layers.

5. 5

   For icing.

6. 6

   Boil 1 cupful water with 2 cupfuls sugar till it forms soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F., then pour over well beaten yolks of four eggs, beat until smooth and thick, add 1.5 teaspoonfuls orange extract and spread at once on cake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Golden Orange Cake 2 cupfuls sugar 5 eggs or yolks of 10 eggs 1 teaspoonful salt 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful orange extract 1 cupful Crisco 1 cupful milk 4 teaspoonfuls baking powder

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