1 lb. sugar.
¾ lb. flour.
½ lb. butter.
Whites of ten eggs—whipped very stiff.
1 large teaspoonful essence bitter almonds.
Cream butter and sugar; put next the whites of the eggs; then the
flour, lastly the flavoring.
Make gold and silver cake on the same day; bake them in tins
of corresponding size, and lay them in alternate slices in the
cake-basket. Flavor the icing of silver cake with rose-water.