Delicious Nut Cake
Old English Recipe, year 1600
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar rolled fine or sifted
- 1 cup butter – creamed together
- 3 cups flour – sifted 4 times
- 1 cup cold water
- 4 eggs, whites and yokes beaten separately
- 2 cups walnuts – chopped or rolled
- 2 tsp cream of tartar – level measure
Icing
- 4 cups sugar
- ½ pint hot water
- 4 eggs – beaten
- citric acid about size of pea
- vanilla
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar, stir in yolks, beat hard for 5 minutes, add water, then flour, mix the tartar in it—then nuts, then beaten whites of eggs.
- Bake ¾ of an hour if loaf, or half hour if divided into two portions or layers.
Icing
- Boil water and sugar until it threads. Pour over the beaten whites of 4 eggs. Beat until almost cold then add citric acid dissolved in one teaspoon boiling water, flavor with vanilla and spread between layers and over cake.
- This keeps a long time in a locked closet.
