Stir the butter and sugar to a cream. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately. Then, by degrees, put in the flour, and add the lemon juice last, stirring all lightly together. If almonds are to be used, they should be blanched. Pound the almonds, or cut into shreds.
Golden Cake.
This and the following cake are named from gold and silver, on account of their color as well as their excellence.
They should be made together, so as to use both portions of the eggs.
To make golden cake, take
One pound of flour, dried and sifted.
One pound of sugar.
Three quarters of a pound of butter.
The yolks of fourteen eggs.
The yellow part of two lemons grated, and the juice also.