Nun's cake
6 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Butter or butter substitute |
| 1½ | cup | Powdered sugar |
| 5 | Egg yolks | |
| 2 | Egg whites | |
| ¾ | cup | Milk |
| 3 | cups | Cake flour |
| 2½ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 3 | teaspoons | Caraway seed |
| 2 | teaspoons | Rose water flavoring |
| ½ | teaspoon | Cinnamon flavoring |
Directions
Prize winning recipe
Cream butter. Add sugar and yolks of eggs. Beat thoroughly. Stir in unbeaten whites of eggs and beat mixture. Sift flour, measure, and sift with baking powder and salt. Add alternately with milk to first mixture. Sprinkle in caraway seed, beat well, and add flavorings.
Pour into well-oiled loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven (375 F) 1 hour.
Substitute 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring for caraway seed, rose water, and cinnamon if desired. Mrs. C.E. Beam, Statesville, N.C.