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* Exported from MasterCook *
Lady Baltimore Cake and Frosting
Recipe By :Dianna
Serving Size : 0 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Cakes
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup butter
2 cups fine granulated sugar
4 cups pastry flour
4 teaspoons baking powder
2 cups milk
2 teaspoons almond extract
8 egg whites beaten stiff and dry
Filling:
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup boiling water
4 egg whites beaten until stiff
1/2 teaspoon tartaric acid
2 cups coarse chopped walnuts
2 cups seeded raisins (cut into pieces)
Sherry (optional)
Cream butter, add gradually fine granulated sugar, beating constantly by
hand until creamy.
Sift together pastry flour, and baking powder.
Add alternately to first mix with milk; add both slowly while beating briskly.
Add almond extract, and then fold in whites, which were beaten until stiff
and dry. Bake in 3 large and buttered floured cake pans for 20 minutes in
a moderate oven.
Put together with filling for Lady Baltimore Cake and spread top of cake
with the same.
Filling:
Boil sugar with boiling water. Boil until spins a thread or to 280F. Pour
syrup in a fine stream on the whites of 4 eggs beaten until stiff. Beat
constantly while doing this. Add 1/2-teaspoon tartaric acid and continue
beating. Then add coarse chopped walnuts and seeded raisins, which
were cut into pieces.
NOTE: in the older recipes the nuts and the raisins were soaked in fine
old sherry before adding. Use this as the filling and frosting.
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Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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