Original Lady Baltimore Cake from SC
List of Ingredients
Original Lady Baltimore Cake from the Charleston SC Women's exchange original recipe.
Cream 1 c butter, add gradually 2 cups fine granulated sugar, beating constantly by hand until creamy. Sift together 4 cups pastry flour, and 4 teaspoons baking powder. Add alternately to first mix with 2 cups of milk; add both slowly while beating briskly. Add 2 teaspoons of almond extract, then fold in whites of 8 eggs which were beaten until stiff and dry. Bake in 3 large and buttered floured cake pans for 20 minutes in a moderate oven. Put together with filling for Lady Baltimore Cake and spread top of cake with the same.
This recipe was copied from a members copy of the original recipe.
Recipe
Cake Filling
Boil 3 cups sugar with 3/4 cup boiling water. Boil until spins a thread or to 280F. Pour syrup in a fine stream on the whites of 4 eggs beaten until stiff. Beat constantly while doing this. Add 1/2 teaspoon tartaric acid and continue beating. Then add 2 cups coarse chopped walnuts and 2 cups seeded raisins which were cut into peices. Note in the original the nuts and the raisins were soaked in fine old sherry before adding. use as filling and frosting.
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