Lady Cake

Name: Lady Cake
Ingredients: One pound of flour; 1 pound of sugar; 5-8 of a pound of butter; whites of 17 eggs; 2 or 3 drops of oil of bitter almonds

From La cuisine creole, 1885

Confectioners usually bake in a square or long pan.

Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LADY CAKE. One pound of flour ; 1 pound of sugar ; 5-8 of a pound of butter ; whites of 17 eggs ; 2 or 3 drops of oil of bitter almonds

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