Orange Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 5 egg yolks
• 4 1/2 cup butter
• 4 egg whites
• 2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 2 tsp. Royal baking powder
• Grated rind of 1 orange

Method

1. 1

   For filling and frosting: beat white of 1 egg stiff, add alternately powdered sugar and orange juice until the juice of 1 large orange and 1/2 lemon has been used.

2. 2

   It will take from 1 1/2 to 2 cups sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

4 egg whites 3 small tsps. baking powder Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add milk and flour slowly. (Have baking powder well sifted thru the flour). Add beaten whites last of all. Flavor with bitter almond. If made right this is as nice as Angel Food. —Miss Effie Cox. WHITE CAKE 7 eggs, the whites, beaten te 2-3 cup butter a stiff froth % cupful of milk 2 cups sugar 2 tsps. baking powder 3 cupfuls of flour Flavor with vanilla if desired. Bake in 3 layers or in a loaf. —Miss Cora E. White. WHITE CAKE RECIPE (Level Measurements Used) 1% cups sugar 2% cups flour % cup butter and lard 4 egg whites 1 cup sweet milk 1% tsp. vanilla 2 tsp. baking powder % tsp. almond extract Process: Cream butter and lard, add sugar gradually stirring constantly. Mix and sift together flour and bak- ing powder. Add to the first mixture alternately with milk. Add vanilla and almond extracts and fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff and dry. Turn into well greased cake pans and bake fifteen minutes in moderate oven. Put to- gether with boiled frosting. —Mrs. A. C. Jones. ORANGE CAKE 2 cups sugar 5 egg yolks 4% cup butter 4egg whites _ 2 cups flour % cup orange juice 2 tsp. Royal baking powder’ Grated rind of 1 orange

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