Lowney's Cook Book / Illustrated in Colors

by Maria Willett Howard

Lady Baltimore Cake

• 1 cup butter
  2 cups sugar
  8 egg yolks
  1 whole egg
  ⅛ teaspoon salt
  3-¾ cups flour
  4 teaspoons baking powder
  ¾ cup milk
  8 egg whites
  1 teaspoon vanilla or almond

Cream butter; add sugar. Beat yolks and whole egg; add salt, and add to sugar mixture. Mix and sift flour and baking powder, and add to egg mixture alternately with milk. Beat whites until stiff; add flavoring; add to egg mixture. Bake in buttered layer cake pans twenty minutes. Fill with [Baltimore Filling], and frost with [Boiled Frosting].

Baltimore Filling

• 2 cups sugar
  ⅓ cup boiling water
  1 cup chopped walnuts
  2 egg whites
  1 tablespoon lemon juice
  1 cup chopped cherries

Boil sugar and water until a thread is formed. Pour on to the beaten whites; add lemon juice, and beat until creamy; add nuts and cherries and use for filling.