Lightning Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• grated rind 1 lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add lemon and beaten eggs, add flour, and beat well.

3. 3

   Spread 1 inch thick on flat buttered pans, sprinkle with a mixture of granulated sugar, powdered cinnamon, and few chopped almonds.

4. 4

   Bake pale brown in hot oven, and when cold cut in squares.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The royal baker and pastry cook (1902) by New York Cooking School, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lightning Cake. — 1 cup butter, 1 cup gran- ulated sugar, 3 eggs, 2 cups flour, Vi teaspoon Royal BaMug Powder, grated rind 1 lemon. Mix flour and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add lemon and beaten eggs, add flour, and beat well. Spread 1 inch thick on flat buttered pans, sprinkle with a mixture of granulated sugar, powdered cinnamon, and few chopped almonds. Bake pale brown in hot oven, and when cold cut in squares. Lunch Cake (Boston). — 2 cups butter, 2 cups sugar, pints flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 6 eggs, 1 gill wine, 1 teaspoon each extract rose, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Rub the butter and sugar to a very light cream ; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes after each addition ; add the flour sifted with the powder, wine, extracts ; mix into a smooth batter, put into a thickly papered shallow cake-pan (fig. XIII), and bake in moderate oven IVi hours. When cold, ice the bottom and sides with white icing. Marshmallow Cake. — 1 egg, Hi cups sugar, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 cup milk, 2 cups flour. teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter, add *4 of sugar, and beat. Add beaten egg and remainder of sugar, and beat 4 minutes. Add alternately flour and milk, beating well. Add vanilla and bake in layer- cake pans in quick oven. Cut fine *4 pound marshmallows. Spread them between cake layers, and stand in open oven till they melt. Marbled Cake. — This is made in separate batters, a dark and a light one. For the dark one, take cup butter, I cup brown sugar, 2 Vi cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Pow- der, yolks of 4 eggs, Vj cup milk, 1 teaspoon each extract cinnamon, cloves, and allspice. For the light one take cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2V2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder,

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