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Orange Cake (Two cups sugar four eggs)

Two cups sugar, four eggs, leaving out the whites of two, half cup butter, one of water, two tea-spoons baking-powder, three cups flour, juice, grated rind, and pulp of one orange; use the remaining whites for frosting the top. -Mrs. D. B

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Orange Cake (Two cups sugar four eggs)

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