Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it—then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs. Bake ¾ of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.
Icing
| 4 cups sugar ½ pint hot water 4 eggs beaten citric acid about size of pea vanilla |
Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
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Burton.
Christmas Cakes
| ½ lb. Butter 6 Eggs 1 lb. Powdered Sugar Flour enough to roll Beat eggs separate |
Cream butter; add sugar. Separate eggs; beat and add. Then flour to roll.