Lady Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Sugar, 1 lb.; butter, 6 oz.; eggs, whites of 12; flour, ¾ lb.; lemon, or bitter almond.
Stir together one pound of sugar and six ounces of butter; add the whites of twelve eggs whipped to a froth, and three quarters of a pound of flour; flavor with bitter almond or with the juice and grated rind of one lemon. Bake in square shallow tins, and flavor the frosting with vanilla.
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