I love the handwriting on this vintage recipe card! You can tell by the penmanship that this is an oldie. Try this vintage recipe for your next birthday celebration or family dinner.
This vintage recipe is for a classic yellow cake, flavored with vanilla and lemon extract and topped with a Fluffy Icing. The icing is made with sugar, water, egg whites, vanilla, and almond extract.
Cake and Fluffy Icing
A very old vintage handwritten recipe card for a yellow cake with fluffy icing. Bake this classic cake for your next dinner or special occasion.
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Ingredients
Cake
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 cups flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon
- Fluffy Cake Icing
Fluffy Cake Icing
- 1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup water
- 2 egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
Method
Cake
- Cream butter, add sugar gradually, beat egg yolks add to butter and sugar add flour, baking powder, and milk alternately, beat hard; add flavoring then fold in beaten egg whites. Bake in 2 loaves in moderate oven twenty to thirty minutes.
Icing
- Boil sugar and water without stirring until syrup spins a hair when dropped from spoon. Pour syrup slowly in stiffly beaten egg whites beating constantly until stiff enough to spread. Add flavor
