Peanut Pound Cake

Ingredients

• Beat the yolks of 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon ice water
• Yz cup of sifted nut meal
• a pinch of salt
• ^ cup of sliced citron
• Beat the whites of 3 or 4 small eggs
• Yz tablespoon of lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Beat yolks with sugar, add ice water and more sugar, then nut meal, salt, and citron.

2. 2

   Beat whites to stiff froth, fold into yolk mixture, add flour and nut meal until used.

3. 3

   Bake slowly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 375. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PEANUT POUND CAKE.— Have the ingredients nearly ice cold. Beat the yolks of 3 eggs, adding sifted sugar gradually. When stiff, add a little ice water and add more sugar. Beat, add COOK COUNTY COOK BOOK 549 more water, sugar, and Yz the lemon juice, using 1 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon ice water in all. Stir into this mixture Yz cup of sifted nut meal, a pinch of salt and ^ cup of sliced citron. Beat the whites of 3 or 4 small eggs to a stifif froth, with a pinch of salt. Add Yz tablespoon of lemon juice

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