Mary's White Almond Cake

During History Comes Alive, History Cooks made Mary's White Almond Cake.

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Mary Todd Lincoln’s White Cake Recipe
From Lincoln’s Table by Donna D. McCreary. Adapted by Janice Cooke Newman.Ingredients:

• 1 cup blanched almonds, chopped in a food processor until they resemble a coarse flour
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 6 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Confectionary sugar

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a Bundt cake pan.
• Cream butter and sugar. Sift flour and baking powder 3 times. Add to creamed butter and sugar, alternating with milk. Stir in almonds and beat well.
• Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into the batter. Stir in vanilla extract.
• Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Turn out on a wire rack and cool. When cool, sift confectionary sugar over top.
• (A basic white frosting, sprinkled with almonds, was also popular)