Lemon Cake

Ingredients

• one good cup sugar
• one-half cup butter
• three eggs
• one-half cup milk
• two cups of flour
• one tablespoon baking powder
• one cup cold water
• one cup sugar
• the rind and juice of one large lemon
• one tablespoon corn starch
• the yolk of one egg

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, butter, eggs, milk, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   For the filling, boil water and sugar, add lemon juice and rind, corn starch, and yolk when boiling.

3. 3

   Cool before spreading between layers.

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.

LEMON CAKE. (Finest ever.) Mrs. Clara Moulton, Loara, Cal.— Take one good cup sugar, one-half cup butter, three eggs, (.save the yolk of one,) one-half cup milk, two cups of flour, one tablespoon baking powder, jelly between layers, one cup cold water, one cup sugar; the rind and juice of one large lemon, one tablespoon corn starch, heaping with the yolk of one egg

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