Orange Cake (2)

Ingredients

• two cups sugar
• two cups flour
• one-half cup cold water
• yolks of five eggs
• whites of four eggs
• pinch of salt
• one teaspoon soda
• one cream tartar
• juice and a little of the rind of one orange

Method

1. 1

   Bake in jelly cake pans.

2. 2

   Beat egg whites to stiff froth, add powdered sugar, then add orange rind and juice.

3. 3

   Spread on cake when cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Germantown D. A. R. cook book (1907) by Daughters of the American Revolution. Pennsylvania. Germantown chapter, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two cups sugar, one scant cup butter, three and one-half cups flour, one cup sour cream, one scant teaspoonful soda, one-half cake good chocolate. CHOCOLATE FILLING One-half cake Baker's chocolate, one cup sugar, one cup milk, two tablespoonsful corn starch. 59 ORANGE CAKE One-half cup butter, two cups sugar, three cups flour, one cup milk, three eggs, three teaspoonsful baking powder, sifted thro' flour. FILLING Two oranges grated with juice, one cup sugar, one egg beaten, one tablespoonful butter. Mix and boil. CHOCOLATE CAKE One cup butter, three cups sugar, four cups flour, one cup milk, four teaspoonsful baking powder, sifted thro' flour. FILLING One-half cake Baker's chocolate, one cup milk, two cups sugar, one tablespoonful butter. Let all boil together until proper consistency, then spread between layers. Contributed by Miss Edith Hartwell ORANGE CAKE Two cups sugar, two cups flour, one-half cup cold water, yolks of five eggs, whites of four eggs, pinch of salt, one teaspoon soda, one cream tartar, juice and a little of the rind of one orange. Bake in jelly cake pans. Beat white of one egg to a stiff froth, add powdered sugar until almost too stiff to stir, then add the grated rind and juice of one orange. Spread cake when cold. "The daintiest last to make the end most sweet. " — Shakespeare 4c " Behind the snowy loaf is the mill wheel; be- hind the mill wheel is the wheat field; behind the wheat field is the sunlight; behind the sunlight is God." — James Russell Lowell. 41 MEMORANDA 42 DEC 26 190? INDEX PAGE • 29 Huckleberry Pudding . . . PAGE . . 22 • 25 Indian Pudding • • 33 Apple Pudding 26 . . 19 • 17 Johnny Cake 26 • 38 Lady Baltimore Cake . . . . . 38 Baked Beans • 27 28 Brown Bread (Togus Spring) . . 27 • • 38 • 32 • • 37 • 24 Mince Meat . . 21 • 23 Muffins . . 32 Cheats (Black Nancy's) . . • 35 > • • 33 Nut Candy New Year's Cookies . . , • • 23 • 23 , . . 29 • 4° 16 • • 25 • 35 Orange Cake (1 ) . . . . . • 40 • 39 Orange Cake (2)

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