Lemon Cake

Ingredients

• 10 eggs
• 3 tablespoonful orange-flower water
• 3/4 lb pounded loaf sugar
• 1 lemon
• 3/4 lb flour
• CAKE-MOULD.]

Instructions

1. Separate the whites from the yolks of the eggs whisk the former to a stiff froth;
2. add the orange-flower water, the sugar, grated lemon-rind, and mix these ingredients well together.
3. Then beat the yolks of the eggs, and add them, with the lemon-juice, to the whites, &c.;
4. dredge in the flour gradually;
5. keep beating the mixture well;
6. put it into a buttered mould, and bake the cake about an hour, or rather longer.
7. The addition of a little butter, beaten to a cream, we think, would improve this cake.