Lincoln and Douglas Cake
List of Ingredients
Cream 1 1/2 cup butter, adding gradually 4 cups fine granulated sugar. Beat 10 minutes [by hand]; add gradually 5 cups pastry flour which was sifted 3 times with 1 teaspoon soda and 3 teaspoons cream of tartar to first mix. Alternate the flour mix with 1 1/4 cups milk beating constantly [by hand] Add 1 1/2 tsp almond extract; use a wooden spoon with slits at this point, fold in 16 egg whites beaten until stiff and dry. Turn into a large tube pan [12x4 in] well buttered and bottom lined with buttered paper. Bake 1 1/4 hours in a moderate oven. Spread with Ice Cream Frosting.
Recipe
This cake was served to these two gentlemen after the debate with some homemade wine on the veranda of the authors grandfather's home [Jacob J Oyler] in Freeport Ill. The cake was made especially for the occasion by his daughter Miss Caroline Oyler.
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