1½ cups flour
2 tablespoons yellow ginger
5 eggs
1½ cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
Cream the butter, and add flour gradually, mixed and sifted with ginger. Beat the yolks of the eggs until thick and lemon-colored, and add sugar gradually. Combine mixtures, add whites of eggs, beaten until stiff, and sift over baking powder. Beat thoroughly, turn into a buttered deep cake pan, and bake one hour in a moderate oven.
Newport Pound Cake
Make same as New York Gingerbread, omitting ginger, and substituting one teaspoon vanilla extract.
Christmas Cakes
Bake Newport Pound Cake in golden-rod pans, cut in fourths crosswise, spread with Ice Cream Frosting, and garnish with green leaves, made from ornamental frosting, and round red candies to imitate berries.