White Mountain Cake Recipe

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Ingredients for White Mountain Cake Recipe

  • Whites of 4 eggs
  • ½ cup sifted pastry flour
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons lemon juice
  • A few grains of salt
  • ¼ teaspoon each of lemon and vanilla flavor

Instructions

  1. Measure out all the ingredients before commencing to put the cake together.
  2. Sift the flour and the sugar four times separately.
  3. Add a few grains of salt to the whites, and beat until foamy, but not stiff.
  4. Add the lemon juice and the flavoring and sift in the sugar slowly, beating constantly.
  5. Use care not to make the mixture stiff.
  6. Sift the flour over slowly and mix using the folding motion.
  7. Bake in an unbuttered pan 20 minutes or more, having a small pan of hot water under the cake while baking.
  8. When done, turn upside down n a rack and leave in the pan until cold.
  9. Cover with plain icing.

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