Lemon Cake
1 cupful butter. 3 cupfuls white sugar. 5 eggs beaten separately. Cream butter and sugar together. 1 teaspoonful soda. 1 cup milk. The juice and grated rind of one lemon. 5 small teacupfuls flour. Bake in small or shallow tins.--Mrs. C.
Lemon Cake.
One cupful of butter, three cupfuls of white sugar, rubbed to a cream. Stir in the yolks of five eggs well beaten, and one teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a cupful of milk; add the whites, and sift in as lightly as possible four cupfuls of flour. Add the juice and grated peel of one lemon.--Mrs. Dr. S. "ROBERT E. LEE" CAKE.
Twelve eggs, their full weight in sugar, a half-weight in flour. Bake it in pans the thickness of jelly cakes. Take two pounds of nice "A" sugar, squeeze into it the juice of five oranges and three lemons together with the pulp; stir it in the sugar until perfectly smooth; then spread it on the cakes, as you would do jelly, putting one above another till the whole of the sugar is used up. Spread a layer of it on top and on sides.--Mrs. G. "GEN. ROBERT LEE" CAKE. 10 eggs. 1 pound sugar. 1/2 pound flour. Rind of 1 lemon, and juice of 1/2 lemon.
Make exactly like sponge cake, and bake in jelly-cake tins. Then take the whites of two eggs beat to a froth, and add one pound sugar, the grated rind and juice of one orange, or juice of half a lemon. Spread it on the cakes before they are perfectly cold, and place one layer on another. This quantity makes two cakes.--Mrs. I. II.