Lemon Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• one and a half cups of sugar
• one-half cup of butter
• the beaten yolks of two eggs
• one cup of sweet milk
• grated rind of two lemons
• three and one-half cups of flour
• a pinch of salt
• heaping teaspoonful of baking-powder
• the stiff-beaten white of one egg
• a half-teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
• cup of raisins

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add yolks, milk, lemon rind, flour, salt, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Fold in beaten egg white.

3. 3

   For icing, boil sugar with lemon juice and rind, then mix with beaten egg white and spread on cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 83. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LEMON LOAF CAKE Beat to a cream one and a half cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, adding gradually, the beaten yolks of two eggs, one cup of sweet milk, grated rind of two lemons, three and one-half cups of flour, with a pinch of salt and heaping teaspoonful of baking-powder sifted through the flour, whipping in at the last of the mixing the stiff-beaten white of one egg (a half-teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and cup of raisins

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