Lord Baltimore Cake Recipe

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Ingredients for Lord Baltimore Cake
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ¾ cup vegetable shortening
  • ½ cup cold water
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2½ cups flour
  • 2½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 6 yolks of eggs
  • Filling or Frosting
  • 1 cup sugar
  • ½ cup boiling water
  • 2 whites of eggs
  • Pinch cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ cup chopped raisins
  • ½ cup chopped nut meats
  • 5 chopped figs

Instructions
  1. For cake.
  2. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together.
  3. Sift together three times dry ingredients and add alternately with water.
  4. Add vanilla, beat mixture well, then fold in beaten yolks of eggs.
  5. Divide into two vegetable shorteninged and floured layer cake tins and bake in moderate oven twenty-five minutes.
  6. For filling.
  7. Put sugar and water into saucepan, stir till boiling, add cream of tartar, then boil until it forms soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240 degree F.; pour on to stiffly beaten whites of eggs, pouring in steady stream and very slowly, adding while beating vanilla, raisins, nuts, and figs, beat until thick and divide between and on top of cake.
  8. Sufficient for one large layer cake.

 




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