Recipe - Mary Todd Lincoln Cake

1 cup Butter
1 teaspoon Vanilla
2 One fourth cup Cake flour
1 tablespoon Baking powder
1 1/3 cup Milk
1 cup Almonds; finely chopped
6 Egg whites; stiffly beaten

WHITE FROSTING
1 cup Sugar
1/3 cup Water
One fourth teaspoon Cream of tartar
1 ds Salt
2 Egg whites
1 teaspoon Vanilla

The marriage of Mary Todd to Abraham Lincoln is best expressed by the words
Lincoln had engraved inside Mary's wedding band, "Love is eternal." Mary
expressed her feelings in less dramatic, but lasting and tasteful terms.
She baked him her favorite white cake. This is her recipe. 1 c. butter 1
tsp. vanilla 2 One fourth c. cake flour 1 tbsp. baking powder 1 1/3 c. milk 1 c.
finely chopped almonds 6 egg whites, stiffly beaten Cream butter, sugar and
vanilla. Sift together cake flour and baking powder 3 times. Add to creamed
mixture alternately with milk. Stir in almonds. Gently fold in the egg
whites. Pour into 2 greased and floured 9 x 1 One half inch round

baking pans. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before
removing from the pan. Bring to boiling sugar, water, cream of tartar and
salt. Boil until sugar dissolves. Put egg whites in mixing bowl. Start
beater and while egg whites are beating, very slowly add hot syrup. Beat
until stiff peaks form, about 7 minutes. Beat in vanilla for 1 more minute.
This recipe came from the museum in the Eastern National Park and Monument

Association, located directly in front of Lincoln's home. This is where he
lived when he was elected to the Presidency of the United States.

Recipe by: Cookbook USA

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #1005 by Gerald Edgerton jerrye@wizard.com
on Jan 12, 1998