2 cupfuls sugar
1 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful orange extract
1 cupful milk
5 eggs or yolks of 10 eggs
4 cupfuls flour
1 cupful Crisco
4 teaspoonfuls baking powder
Orange icing
_For cake_. Cream Crisco and sugar together, add salt, eggs well
beaten, orange extract, and flour and baking powder alternately with
milk. Mix carefully and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and
bake in moderate oven about one hour. This mixture may be baked in
layers.
_For icing_. Boil 1 cupful water with 2 cupfuls sugar till it forms
soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F., then pour over well
beaten yolks of four eggs, beat until smooth and thick, add 1-1/2
teaspoonfuls orange extract and spread at once on cake.
Sufficient for one large cake.