Lincoln Cake
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound butter
- 1 pound of sugar
- 1 pound flour
- 6 eggs
- 2 cupfuls sour cream (or milk)
- 1 nutmeg grated
- 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
- 1 tablespoonful rose-water
- Teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water and added to the milk
Directions
Mix the butter and sugar and put with them the yolks whipped light, ther. the cream, spice, rose-water and flour and a double handful of citron, cut fine, and dredged with flour, and last of all the beaten whites of the eggs. Stir thoroughly and bake in a loaf, or in a card, using a square, shallow baking-pan. This is a good cake and keeps well. Flavor the frosting with lemon. The white of one egg can be left out for this purpose.