LADY BALTIMORE CAKE
- ½ cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- whites of 3 eggs
- ½ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 1¾ cups flour
- 2 teaspoons Dr. Price's Baking Powder
Cream shortening; add sugar and unbeaten white of one egg; add the milk very slowly, beating between each addition; add flavoring; add the flour which has been sifted with the baking powder; lastly fold in the beaten whites of 2 eggs. Bake in square or round greased layer tins in hot oven about 15 minutes. Use the following filling and cover the top and sides of cake with white icing [page 17].
FILLING
- 1½ cups sugar
- ½ cup water
- whites of 2 eggs
- ½ cup chopped seeded raisins
- ½ cup chopped figs
- 1 cup blanched almonds or pecan nuts
Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a thread. Pour syrup slowly over beaten eggs. Mix in fruit and nuts. Spread between layers of cake.