Orange Cake
This orange cake is, not only, an excellent dessert recipe but a great choice for a breakfast cake as well.
Ingredients:
Two cupfuls of sugar
a small half cupful of butter
two cupfuls of flour
half a cupful of water
the yolks of five eggs and whites of four
half a teaspoonful of soda
a teaspoonful of cream of tartar
the rind of one orange
juice of one and a half oranges
Directions:
Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, gradually, then the orange, the eggs, well beaten, the water and the flour, in which the soda and cream of tartar have been well mixed.
Bake in sheets for twenty-five minutes, in a moderate oven, and when cool, frost.
Frosting: The white of an egg, the juice of one and a half oranges and the grated rind of one, one cupful and a half of powdered sugar, unless the egg and oranges are very large, in which case use two cupfuls.
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