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Ames Cake

Ingredients

• 1 generous cupful of butter
• 2 generous cupfuls of sugar
• 3 cupfuls of pastry flour
• 1 small cupful of milk
• yolks of 5 eggs
• whites of 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar
• 1/2 a teaspoonful of soda, or 1 1/2 teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful of lemon extract, or the juice of one fresh lemon

Instructions

Beat the butter to a cream.

Add the sugar, gradually, then the seasoning, the eggs, well beaten, next the milk and then the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar are mixed.

Mix thoroughly, but quickly, and bake in two sheets in a moderate oven for twenty-five or thirty minutes.

Cover with a frosting made by stirring two small cupfuls of powdered sugar into the whites of two eggs, and seasoning with lemon.

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Source

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book

Categories

Cakes.