Superior Nut Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Superior Nut Cake Recipe

• 5 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup sifted pastry flour
• ¾ cup coarsely chopped walnuts
• Juice one small lemon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• ½ teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs, beat the yolks stiff, beat into them half the lemon juice.
2. Beat in the sugar, a little at a time, and beat till very stiff.
3. Beat in the vanilla.
4. Add the salt to the whites, and beat till frothy, then add the other half of the lemon juice, and beat till stiff and dry.
5. Pour the beaten yolk mixture onto the whites; sift over it some flour, and sprinkle over it some nuts, and fold them in.
6. Sift on more flour and sprinkle on more nuts, continuing thus till all the flour and nuts are folded in.
7. Pour into a cake tin into the bottom of which oiled paper has been fitted, and bake in a moderate oven.