Republican Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of sugar
• the same of flour
• and a half a pound of butter
• one cup of rich cream
• five eggs beaten very light separately
• two teaspoons of cream of tartar
• one of soda
• the rind and juice of a large lemon

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the lemon, stir it well in, then add the yolks of the eggs, then the cream, flour (beating each in well), and last the whites of the eggs.

2. 2

   Put the cream of tartar dry in the flour, the soda dissolved in a spoonful of hot water, and added last.

3. 3

   Bake in one large cake as pound-cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Republican Cake. One pound of sugar, the same of flour, and a half a pound of butter, one cup of rich cream, five eggs beaten very light sepa- rately, two teaspoons of cream of tartar, one of soda, and the rind and juice of a large lemon

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