Imperial Cake Recipe
Ingredients for Imperial Cake Recipe
- ½ lb. butter
- ½ lb. sugar
- Yolks 5 eggs
- Whites 5 eggs
- Grated rind½ lemon
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- ½ lb. raisins, seeded and cut in pieces
- ½ cup walnut meat, broken in pieces
- ½ lb. flour
- ¼ teaspoon soda
Instructions
- Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and continue beating; then add yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored, whites of eggs beaten until stiff and dry, flour, mace, and brandy.
- Beat vigorously five minutes, adding raisins dredged with flour, and nuts at the last.
- Bake in a deep pan one and one-fourth hours in a slow oven; or if to be used for fancy ornamented cakes, bake thirty to thirty five minutes in a dripping-pan.
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