Lincoln Cake

Ingredients

• Rub 1 pound sugar
• and 0.5 pound butter
• the yolks of 6 well beaten eggs
• 2 cupfuls sour cream
• 1 tea-spoonful soda
• 1 tea-spoonful nutmeg
• 1 tea-spoonful cinnamon
• 1 pound of sifted flour
• 1 table-spoonful rose water
• half a pound of citron cut and dredged with flour
• the whites of the eggs, which must be beaten very stiff

Method

1. 1

   Rub sugar and butter together, add yolks of eggs, sour cream, and soda dissolved in boiling water.

2. 2

   Stir in nutmeg, cinnamon, flour, rose water, and beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Beat all thoroughly and bake in square shallow pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LINCOLN CAKE. Rub I pound sugar and ^ pound butter to- gether, and add the yolks of 6 well beaten eggs, 2 cupfuls sour cream, with i tea-spoonful soda dis- 312 DOMESTIC GUIDE. solved in a little boiling water and stirred into it just before adding to the cake I tea-spoonful each of nutmeg and cinnamon, and i pound of sifted flour, I table-spoonful rose water, half a pound of citron cut and dredged with flour, and lastly the whites of the eggs, which must be beaten very- stif

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