Lady Cake

Ingredients

• One half cup of room temperature butter
• One cup of sugar
• Three cups of flour
• One cup of lukewarm water
• Five egg whites
• Two teaspoons of baking powder
• One teaspoon of Vanilla

Directions

1. Cream the butter.
2. Stir in the sugar until fully mixed.
3. Incorporate one half cup of water.
4. Add in the flour one table spoon at a time, alternating with water until both flour and water are mixed in.
5. In a separate bowl, beat half of the eggs into stiff peaks.
6. Fold in the baking powder into the beaten eggs.
7. Incorporate the rest of the eggs into the beaten egg mixture.
8. Poor the egg mixture into the flour mixture and fold in until fully incorporated.

—Mrs. Rosenbaum

Source — New Orleans Cookbook
Prepared by Ashton Davenport
Louisiana Anthology
July 20, 2021