Imperial Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Imperial Cake

• 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

1. 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.
2. Beat vigorously five minutes, adding raisins dredged with flour, and nuts at the last.
3. 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.