Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Lincoln Cake.

• ¾ lb. butter.
• 1 lb. sugar.
• 1 lb. flour.
• 6 eggs.
• 2 cups sour cream or milk.
• 1 grated nutmeg.
• 1 teaspoonful powdered cinnamon.
• ¼ lb. citron.
• 1 tablespoonful rose-water.
• 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water, and stirred into the milk just before adding the latter to the cake.

Cream the butter and sugar, put with them the yolks whipped light, then the cream and spice, next the flour, then the rose-water, and a double-handful of citron cut in slips and dredged; finally, the beaten whites of the eggs. Stir all well, and bake in a loaf or in a “card,” using a square shallow baking-pan.

This is a good cake, and keeps well.