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
• half a teaspoonful of soda
• a teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• the rind of one orange
• the juice oi 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, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been well mixed.

3. 3

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

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 161. 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, half a teaspoonful of soda, a teaspoonful of cream of tartar, the rind of one orange and the juice oi one and a half

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