Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, and add the yolks, well beaten and strained. Then add the lemon peel and flour, and a teaspoonful of sal volatile, dissolved in a little hot water. Beat it well, and just before putting it into the oven add the lemon juice, beating it in very thoroughly.
Bake in square flat pans, ice it thickly, and cut it in square pieces. It looks finely on a dish with the silver cake.
Silver Cake.
One pound of sugar.
Three quarters of a pound of dried and sifted flour.
Six ounces of butter.
Mace and citron.
The whites of fourteen eggs.
Beat the sugar and butter to a cream, add the whites cut to a stiff froth, and then the flour. It is a beautiful-looking cake.