First make a sponge cake with twelve eggs, the weight of twelve eggs in sugar, and weight of ten in flour. Then make an icing of the whites of two eggs, the juice of one lemon, and the juice and grated rind of two oranges; add sufficient powdered sugar to make the proper consistency for icing—then put between each cake, and on top of the whole cake.—Mrs. C. B.
Lemon Cake.
1 cupful butter.
3 cupfuls white sugar.
5 eggs beaten separately.
Cream butter and sugar together.
1 teaspoonful soda.
1 cup milk.
The juice and grated rind of one lemon.
5 small teacupfuls flour.