Queen Cake (Gateau a la Reine) a la Maude

Ingredients

• Half cup butter
• one and a half cups sugar
• three eggs
• half cup milk
• juice of one orange
• rind of one orange
• two cups flour
• two teaspoons Royal baking powder
• a pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks, stir until light and creamy; add the milk, flour, baking powder, and orange juice and rind.

2. 2

   Last add the whites of the eggs — beaten to a stiff meringue.

3. 3

   Mix carefully.

4. 4

   Bake in well-buttered and papered cake tin — time according to the thickness of the cake.

5. 5

   One cup of chopped nuts can be added.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 579. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Queen Cake ( Gateau a la Reine ) a la Maude Half cup butter, one and a half cups sugar, three eggs, half cup milk, juice and rind of one orange, two cups flour, two teaspoons Royal baking powder, a pinch of salt

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