Lady Baltimore Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 3 3/4 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • 8 egg yolks
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 whole egg
  • 8 egg whites
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond

Directions

Cream butter; add sugar. Beat yolks and whole egg ; add salt, and add to sugar mixture. Mix and sift flour and baking powder, and add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Beat whites until stiff; add flavoring; add to egg mixture. Bake in buttered layer cake pans twenty minutes. Fill with Baltimore filling, and frost with boiled frosting

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Baltimore Filling

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 egg whites
  • 1/3 cup boiling water
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup chopped cherries

Boil sugar and water until a thread is formed. Pour on to the beaten whites ; add lemon juice, and beat until creamy; add nuts and cherries and use for filling.