Silver Cake. ✠
- 1 lb. sugar.
- ¾ lb. flour.
- ½ lb. butter.
- Whites of ten eggs—whipped very stiff.
- 1 large teaspoonful essence bitter almonds.
Cream butter and sugar; put next the whites of the eggs; then the flour, lastly the flavoring.
Make gold and silver cake on the same day; bake them in tins of corresponding size, and lay them in alternate slices in the cake-basket. Flavor the icing of silver cake with rose-water.