Home › Cake › Lady Baltimore Cake

Lady Baltimore Cake

1/2 cup shortening 1 cup sugar whites of 3 eggs 1/2 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 3/4 cups flour 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder Cream shortening; add sugar and unbeaten white of one egg; add the milk very slowly, beating between each addition; add flavoring; add the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder; lastly fold in the beaten whites of 2 eggs. Bake in square or round greased layer tins in hot oven about 15 minutes. Use the following filling and cover the top and sides of cake with white icing.

FILLING 1 1/2 cups sugar 3/4 cup water 2 eggs 1/2 cup chopped seeded raisins 1/2 cup chopped figs 1 cup chopped blanched almonds 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Boil sugar and water until syrup spins a thread. Pour hot syrup slowly over 2 whole eggs beaten together. Mix with fruit and nuts and flavoring. Spread between layers of cake.