Watermelon Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups of sugar
• Four egg whites
• 1/2 cup sweet milk
• 1/2 cup butter
• 2 cups of flour
• 1 full teaspoon of Dixie baking powder
• 1 1/2 cup pink sugar
• 1/2 cup sour milk
• Rose water
• 1/4 pound of raisins 
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Directions

1. Cream butter and sugar well together, then add the milk, afterward stir in a little flour, then a little egg, and so on until all the ingredients are added.

2. Then take 11⁄2 cups of pink sugar (any good confectioner can supply it) 1⁄2 cup sour milk, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoonful Dixie baking powder.

3. Flavor the pink part with anything you prefer, rose water is much used. Seed 1⁄4 pound of good raisins, rub well in the flour, to prevent them from sinking.
4. After the dough of both kinds is ready, spread the bottom and sides of the pan with the white dough; fill up with the pink, leaving enough of the white to cover over top entirely. Bake carefully. Be sure it is well done before removing it from the pan.
— Mrs. Florence E. Russ.

Source — New Orleans Cook Book

Prepared by Lexi Wilkerson

Louisiana Anthology

March 26, 2022