Lemon Washington Pie

Ingredients

• One cupful sugar
• 1 cupful flour
• 3 eggs
• y^ teaspoonful soda
• y2 teaspoonfui cream of tartar
• a pinch of salt
• 1 y& cupfuls of cold water
• 1 dessertspoonful of butter
• ij4 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar and yolks of eggs well beaten; stir in soda and salt; add flour and cream of tartar, and last the beaten whites of eggs.

2. 2

   Bake in 3 shallow tins.

3. 3

   Spread between the cakes with a lemon mixture boiled together and thickened with cornstarch, adding yolks of eggs, lemon juice, and grated rind.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from 365 desserts (1900) by Harriet Schuyler Nelson, page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lemon Washington Pie. One cupful sugar j 1 cupful flour ; 3 eggs ; y^ teaspoonful soda ; y2 teaspoonfui cream of tartar, a pinch of salt. Mix the sugar and yolks of the eggs well beaten ; stir in the soda and salt ; add the flour and cream of tartar, and last the whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Bake in 3 shallow tins. Spread be- tween the cakes when done the following : Lemon mixture ; 1 y& cupfuls of cold water, 1 cupful of sugar, 1 dessertspoonful of butter. Boil all together and add ij4 tablespoonfuls of cornstarch

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