Silver Cake.
Reading edition
Take: White sugar, 1 lb.; butter, ½ lb.; eggs, whites of 10; flour, ¾ lb.; essence bitter almonds, 1 teaspoonful.
Beat to a cream one pound of fine white sugar and half a pound of butter; add the whites of ten eggs, whipped to a stiff froth; then add three quarters of a pound of flour; flavor with one teaspoonful of the essence of bitter almonds. Flavor the icing with rose-water.
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