Peanut Pound Cake

Ingredients

• 3 large or 4 small eggs
• a scant cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoonful lemon juice
• 1 tablespoonful ice-water
• 1 cup sifted Nut Meal
• 1/2 cup sliced citron, if desired
• 1/2 to 2/3 cup pastry flour, sifted once before measuring
• salt.

Method

1. 1

   Have the ingredients as nearly ice-cold as possible.

2. 2

   Sift the sugar; sift the flour twice, and leave it in the sifter.

3. 3

   Beat the yolks of three eggs, adding sugar gradually.

4. 4

   When stiff, add part of the water and more sugar.

5. 5

   Beat, add more water, sugar, and half the lemon juice until all the sugar is in.

6. 6

   Stir into this mixture half the Nut Meal, a good pinch of salt, and the citron.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Healthful cookery (1904) by E. E. Kellogg, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Peanut Pound Cake. — 3 large or 4 small eggs, a scant cup granulated sugar, 1 tablespoonful lemon juice, 1 tablespoonful ice-water, 1 cup sifted Nut Meal, j/2 cup sliced citron, if desired, y2 to 2/3 cup pastry flour, sifted once before measuring, salt.

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