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Delicious Nut Cake

Old English Recipe, year 1600

Coffee cup is used for measure.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of sugar rolled fine or sifted
• 1 cup of butter, creamed together
• 3 cups of flour, sifted 4 times
• 1 cup of cold water
• 4 eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately
• 2 large cups of walnut chopped or rolled
• 2 teaspoons of cream of tartar, level measure

Instructions

Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it, then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs. Bake 3/4 of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.

Icing

• 4 cups sugar
• 1/2 pint hot water
• 4 eggs beaten
• citric acid about size of pea
• vanilla

Instructions

Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.

This keeps a long time in a locked closet.

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Source

The Suffrage Cook Book (1915).