Lady Baltimore Cake

Ingredients

• Two-thirds cup butter
• five eggs
• two cups sugar (very light brown)
• four cups flour
• One-half cup rich milk
• two level teaspoons cream tartar
• one level teaspoon soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and half the sugar, beat remaining sugar into yolks of eggs until light.

2. 2

   Add milk, sift tartar and soda with flour, and fold in beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Flavor half with rose or orange and the other half with cinnamon and cloves.

4. 4

   Bake in layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two-thirds cup butter, five eggs, two cups sugar (very light brown), four cups — our, One-half cup rich milk, two level teaspoons cream tar- ~ ‘ar and one level teaspoon’ soda. Mix as follows: Cream — olks of the eggs and beat the remaining cup of sugar with he yolks until very light and creamy; then add to the — sugar and butter. After a thorough beating add very slowly ~ he milk, sift the tartar and soda twice with the flour and dd to the batter, and lastly the stifiy beaten whites of the eges. Flavor half this mixture with rose or orange flavor — and-to the other half add one teaspoon of powdered cinna- ~ mon, one-half teaspoon cloves and plenty of vanilla. pate n four layers—two dark and two white. 7 Nae -Filling for Lady Baltimore Cake: Cut or grind fine one -cupful seeded raisins, half a candied citron. Grate one fresh — ‘cocoanut, blanch and chop very fine one-half pound almonds, Make a boiled icing of one cup sugar and whites of two — eggs and into it beat all the above ingredients and put bees tween the cake layers. For the top make a plain icing.and ~ put whole almonds on end as thickly as they can stand, ~ ee them down into the cake layer, which should be white _ A coffee cup should be used for measuring and should Ae be just level full. aoe \ Sometimes I just sprinkle thickly on the top of the Gare ae ‘a layer of powdered sugar. and put the almonds in just the — same. 3 . If this recipe is followed exactly the cake is very deli- eh ious and will keep ( if locked up) for months. ‘ Two-thirds cup of butter, five eggs, two cups sugar, four ps flour, one-half cup rich milk, two level teaspoons cream ~ tartar, one level teaspoon soda

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