Yolks of 8 eggs.
1¼ cup granulated sugar.
⅔ cup butter.
⅔ cup sweet milk.
3 cups flour.
1 teaspoonful cream of tartar.
½ teaspoonful soda.
1½ teaspoonful lemon extract.
Sift the flour and soda together three times, and remember in all cake
recipes, in measuring =soda= to use =scant= measure. Put cream of
tartar in yolks and beat them stiff as possible. Sift your sugar on a
plate, warm it in the oven a little and then cream it and the butter
together thoroughly and add the flavoring while doing this; add beaten
yolks to this and beat in well. Now add the milk and flour and beat it
hard for about two minutes, then bake in two layers and lay up with
white frosting. Have oven moderate and it will bake in thirty or forty
minutes. This cake is also very fine when baked in loaf form, and in
that, only use two and one-half cups flour, making it otherwise just
the same.