Xenophon Cake

Ingredients

• one cup sugar
• half each of butter
• half each of milk
• whites of four eggs
• scant two cups flour
• two teaspoons baking powder
• half cup thick sour cream
• juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar, butter, milk, egg whites, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Bake in layers and cool.

3. 3

   Spread with filling made from almonds, sour cream, and lemon juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

whites of four eggs with two-thirds pint pulverized sugar, add an almond paste made by rubbing in a mortar one pound shelled and blanched almonds (reserving thirty for top) with two teaspoons rose-water. Spread on layers, ice the top and dot it with the al- monds cut lengthwise in thin slicee. Xen<mhon Cake. — One cup sugar, half each of butter and milk, whites of Tour eggs, scant two cups flour, flavor with vanilla: two teaspoons baking powder. Stir flour in last very lightly. Bake in layers and when cold spread with 'this filling ; scant pound shelled almonds, blanched and pounded in a mortar (or a bowl may be used with the potato-masher J, half cup thick sour cream, juice of half a lemon

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