Orange Cake

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls of sugar
• a small half-cupful of butter
• two cupfuls of flour
• half a cupful of water
• the yolks of five eggs
• whites of four
• a teaspoonful of baking-powder sifted with the flour
• the rind of one orange
• the juice of one and a half

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream.

2. 2

   Add the sugar gradually, then the orange, the eggs, well beaten, the water, and the flour.

3. 3

   Bake in sheets for twenty-five minutes in a moderate oven, and, when cool, frost.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Orange Cake. — Two cupfuls of sugar, a small half-cupful of butter, two cupfuls of flour, half a cupful of water, the yolks of five eggs and whites of four, a teaspoonful of bak- 57 Peach Short Cake CAKES Plum Cake ing-powder sifted with the flour, the rind of one orange and the juice of one and a half. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar gradually, then the orange, the eggs, well beaten, the water, and the flour. Bake in sheets for twenty - five minutes in a moderate oven, and, when cool, frost. Frosting : The white of an egg, the juice of one and a half oranges and the grated rind of one, one and a half cupfuls of powdered sugar, unless the egg and oranges are very large, in which case use twn cupfuls. Another way : — Take two even teacupfuls each of sugar and flour, half a cupful of water, the yolks of five eggs, beaten very light, also the whites of four, the juice and grated rind of one orange, and two tea- spoonfuls of baking - powder sifted with the flour.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.