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Lightning Cake

From The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book, 1921

Submitted by Miss E. Lungkwitz and Mrs. Alb. Staats.

Presented as published in 1921. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lightning Cake. 1 cup butter ; 4 eggs : 1 cup sugar ; 1 heaping cup flour : 1 teaspoonful baking powder ; rind and juice of one lemon

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