Cake and Sauce

 Ingredients

    Cake

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup milk
• 4 eggs 
• 3 1/2 cups of flour 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 
• 2 teaspoons Dixie baking powder 

      Sauce

• 2 eggs 
• 3 tablespoons of powered sugar
• 3 tablespoons of milk
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla 

Directions

1. Beat butter and sugar to a cream.
2. Add yolks of eggs, milk, and flavoring. 
3. Add flower reserving two tablespoonfuls.
4. Add whites of eggs. 
5. Put baking powder in reserved flour and add to cake.
6. For the sauce, lightly beat the whites of two eggs.
7. Add 3 tablespoons of powered sugar. 
8. Add yolks of eggs, milk, and vanilla.
9. Prepare immediately before serving. 

Source —  New Orleans Cook Book
Prepared by Austin Irons
Louisiana Anthology
July 18, 2022