Lady Baltimore Cake

Ingredients

• 34 cup shortening
• 12 cup milk
• 2 cups sugar
• 12 cup water
• 3 cups cake flour
• 12 tsp vanilla extract
• 34 tsp salt
• 12 tsp lemon extract
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 6 egg whites beaten stiffly

Directions

1. Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly
2. Add sifted dry ingredients alternatively with milk and water beat smooth after each addition
3. Add extracts
4. Fold in egg whites
5. Bake in 2 waxed paper lined pans 9 inch square layer pans in moderate over 350 degrees for 30 minutes
6. Put layers together with 23 of the recipe for Seven Minute Frosting tinted a delicate pink