Ashland Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Ashland Cake

• ½ cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs, whites
• 10 drops lemon extract
• ½ cup milk
• 1 cup flour
• ½ cup corn starch
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Bake in two deep jelly cake tins

Instructions

1. Filling: Two cups granulated sugar, 1/4 cup of boiling water.
2. Boil till it will spin, then pour slowly boiling hot on the well-beaten whites of 2 eggs, beating all the time.
3. Beat till thick enough not to run, then add 1/2 teaspoon citric acid (powdered), 1 teaspoon each of lemon and vanilla, spread between the layers and over the cake, or, ice with maple fondant.