Gold Cake

Original Recipe

After beating to a cream one cup and a half of butter and two cups of white sugar, stir in the well-whipped yolks of one dozen eggs, four cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder. Flavor with lemon. Line the bake-pans with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.

Ingredients

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  • 1 cream one cup and a half of butter and two cups of white sugar
  • 1 dozen eggs
  • 4 cupfuls of sifted flour
  • 1 teaspoonful of baking powder
  • 1 moderate oven for one hour

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Instructions

  1. 1

    After beating to a cream one cup and a half of butter and two cups of white sugar, stir in the well-whipped yolks of one dozen eggs, four cupfuls of sifted flour, one teaspoonful of baking powder.

  2. 2

    Flavor with lemon.

  3. 3

    Line the bake-pans with buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven for one hour.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)