Lemon Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 6 tablespoonfuls sugar
• ½ teaspoonful salt
• 3 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• 3 eggs
• 12 tablespoonfuls flour
• 4 tablespoonfuls Crisco
• 4 yolks of eggs
• 2 lemons
• 1 white of egg
• ¾ cupful sugar
• 4 teaspoonful salt

Method

1. 1

   For cake.

2. 2

   Put the eggs, sugar, and lemon rind into basin, stand it over pan of boiling water, and beat until warm; then remove from hot water, and continue beating until mixture is stiff and cold; then add flour mixed with baking powder and salt, and pass through sieve, add Crisco melted but cool, taking care to stir very gently, but on no account beat it.

3. 3

   Divide mixture into two small Criscoed and floured layer cake tins, and bake ten minutes in moderately hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 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.

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