Orange Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup orifice juice
• 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder
• pinch of salt
• yolks of 5 eggs
• whites of 3 eggs
• 2 oranges

Method

1. 1

   Beat whites to a froth, add sugar, beat together, add yolks well beaten, half of flour, the grated rind and juice of 2 oranges (if there is not a cupful of juice, add water), rest of flour with baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in layers, using the whites of 2 eggs with 2 cups of sugar for filling.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Raleigh cook book (1907) by N.C.). Ladies' Church Improvement Society First Baptist Church (Raleigh, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

yolks of 5 eggs; 1 level teaspoon of cream tartar; pinch salt; 1 cup sugar; 1 cup flour. Sift, measure and set aside flour and sugar as for Angel Cake. Beat yolks thoroughly. Beat whites about half, add cream tartar, and beat until very stiff. Sift in sugar lightly, then beaten yolks; then add flour. Putin tube pan and in oven at once. If you use gas stove, light both burners two minutes, put in cake, turn out front burner and turn back burner down little more than half. Bake ' forty to forty-five minutes. Layer Cake.—2 cups sugar; 3 cups flour; 4 eggs; % cup butter (or % cup of Snowdrift into which has been beaten % teaspoon salt); %4 cup milk; % teaspoon Royal baking powder; flavor as desired. Mix in usual way; bake in layers. Gas stove, light both burners - five minutes, put in cake, turn out front burner. Orange Cake.—2 cups sugar; 2 cups flour; 1 cup orifice juice; 2 teaspoons Royal baking powder; pinch of salt; yolks of 5 ezes; whites of 3 eggs (using whites of other 2 eggs for filling); 2 oranges

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