Margaret's Own Cake

Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 pinch of salt
• ½ teaspoonful of lemon-juice, or vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Separate the eggs, and beat the yolks very light and foamy; then put in the sugar which you have sifted, a little at a time, and the flour in the same way, but put them in in turn, first sugar, then flour, and so on.

2. 2

   Then put in the flavoring, and last fold in the whites of the eggs, beaten very stiff.

3. 3

   Bake in a buttered pan.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Margaret's Own Cake Margaret's mother named this cake for her, because she liked so much to make it and to eat it. It is a very nice cake for little girls. 5 eggs. 1 cup granulated sugar. 1 cup of flour. 1 pinch of salt. 1/2 teaspoonful of lemon- juice, or vanilla

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