MARY'S RECIPE FOR ORANGE CAKE
Grate outside rind of 1 orange into a bowl; 1½ cups sugar and ½ cup butter and lard, mixed. Cream all together. Add yolks of three eggs, 1 cup of sweet milk, 2½ cups flour, sifted with 2¼ teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Lastly, add the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in two layers.
Grated rind and juice of half an orange, half the white of one egg, beaten stiff. Add pulverized sugar until stiff enough to spread between cakes and on top. (About two cups of sugar were used.)
ROLL JELLY CAKE
- 1 cup granulated sugar.
- 1¼ cups flour.
- 4 egg yolks.
- Pinch of salt.
- ½ cup boiling water.
- 1 large teaspoonful baking powder.