Beat the yolks of five eggs with a quarter of a teaspoon of salt until lemon-colored and very gradually blend in one cup of sugar, adding the rind of one lemon and two tablespoons of lemon juice. Then cut and fold in half a cup of sifted potato flour(or one cup of white flour) and the stiffly whipped egg whites. Turn into a tube pan, sprinkle lightly with chopped blanched almonds and bake about 50 minutes in a moderate oven, heated to 300 degrees.
ALMOND CAKES
One-half cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup milk, 1 1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, teaspoon salt, 4 egg whites, 1 teaspoon almond flavoring. Chopped blanched almonds. Cream shortening with sugar. Sift dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites and flavoring. Fill small muffin tins half full and sprinkle surface with sugar and finely chopped almonds. Bake in moderate oven until browned lightly on surface.
PLAIN CUP CAKES
One-quarter cup butter, 2-3 cull sugar, 1 egg well beaten, 1/2 cup. milk, 11/2 cups pastry flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cream butter, add gradually sugar, beating hard, then the egg. Sift flour and baking powder together. Add alternately with the milk, a little at a time. Add vanilla. Bake in greased pans in a moderate oven.
SOFT GINGER CAKE
One-half cup of sugar creamed with 1 cupful of butter. Add 1 cup of molasses and 1 egg, well beaten. Spice or ginger to taste. Three cup-fuls sifted flour, 1 cupful water poured on 2 teaspoons of soda. Mix all thoroughly and bake in a moderately hot oven.
FAVORITE CAKE
One cup of sugar creamed with l cup of butter. Add 2 eggs (yolks and whites beaten separately), 1/2 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon lemon flavoring and 1/12 cups flour into which has been sifted 1 teaspoon baking powder. This can be baked in small gem pans and iced.
SILVER CAKE
Two cups sugar, 1/2 cup fat, 4 egg whites, 1 cup cold water, 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon cream tartar with 1/2 teaspoon soda or 2 teaspoons baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten whites of eggs. Add cold water. Add sifted ingredients and beat briskly for five minutes. Bake In moderate oven in loaf or layers.
WHITE FRUIT CAKE
Cream 2-3 cup butter and add gradually 1 7/8 cups sifted flour, mixed and sifted with 1.4 teaspoon soda. Add 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice. Beat 6 egg whites until stiff, then gradually add 1 1/4 cups sifted powdered sugar and combine with the first mixture. Then add 2-3 cup candied cherries, 1-3 cup blanched and shredded almonds and 1/2 cup thinly sliced citron. Bake in a buttered, deep cake pan, lined with buttered paper, about one hour.
PORK CAKE
One pound fat salt pork, 1 pint boiling water, 2 cups brown sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 tablespoon cloves, 1 tablespoon nutmeg, 2 tablespoons cinnamon, 2 pounds seeded raisins, 1 pound seedless raisins, 1/4 cup fruit juice (grape preferred), 3 teaspoons baking powder, 7 cups sifted flour, 1 cup chopped nuts (optional). Chop pork fine and pour boiling water over it. Let stand until nearly cold. Add sifted brown sugar, molasses, fruit juice and fruits prepared as in recipes above. Sift flour with baking powder and spices and add to first mixture. Pour into greased pans and steam two and one-half hours. Brown in moderate oven (350 degrees F.) for one-half hour. If nuts are used add to fruits.
You just have to love a recipe collection that provides a method for making a cake when the only available source of fat is salt pork.
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