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
.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.