The Blue Grass Cook Book

page 264

      POUND CAKE (No. 2)
An Old-Time Recipe

  12 eggs,

  1 pound butter,

  1 pound sugar,

  1 pound flour.

Cream the butter and add the flour. Beat the yolks, and add to them the sugar,
then add to the butter and last the frothed whites. Beat well and flavor with
brandy or whisky. Bake in a papered mould in a moderate oven. The old-fashioned
way was to bake this recipe in teacups and ice them with white icing, and they
were called "Snowballs."

      ROBERT LEE JELLY CAKE
Use any recipe for sponge layer cake and fill with the following:

  Yolks of 3 eggs,

  Juice and grated rind of 1 lemon,

  1/4 pound of butter,

  1/2 pound of sugar.

Put in a skillet on the stove and stir till cooked; then put in the well-beaten
3 whites. As soon as it

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