OLD DOMINION CAKE
Cream one cup of butter and two cups of powdered sugar. Add stiffly beaten whites of six eggs, three cups of flour, in which has been sifted two teaspoonsful of baking powder, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in layers in moderate oven.
FILLING FOR OLD DOMINON CAKE
Put on two cups of white sugar with enough water to dissolve thoroughly and cook until it spins a thread. Then add one teaspoonful of vanilla and pour slowly over the whites of two eggs beaten stiff. Beat until creamy and then spread on cake layers. Thickly strew the top of icing with raisins, English walnuts and blanched almonds.
ANGEL’S FOOD CAKE
Whites of eleven eggs,
One cup of flour,
One and one-half cups of sugar,
One teaspoonful of cream of tartar,
One teaspoonful of almond extract.
Sift flour and sugar together five times, then add cream of tartar. Have whites well beaten and add sugar and flour slowly, then almond extract. Beat very little after flour goes in and bake in round cake pan in moderate oven for about fifty minutes.
FILLING
Put on to cook two and one-fourth cups of brown sugar, three tablespoonsful of cream, one tablesponful of butter. Cook until thick, then beat until creamy and spread on layers.
