This section is from the book "Mrs. Allen's Cook Book", by Mrs. Ida C. Bailey Allen. See also: The Conscious Cook: Delicious Meatless Recipes That Will Change the Way You Eat.
1/2 cupful butter or oleomargarine 1 cupful sugar Yolks 3 eggs
1/2 teaspoonful orange extract 1/8 teaspoonful salt
1 1/2 cupfuls pastry flour 2 1/2 teaspoonfuls baking powder Whites 2 eggs 3/4 cupful walnuts, chopped
Cream the butter, add the sugar, gradually, and the egg yolks, beaten until light. Mix the baking powder, salt, flour and nuts and add alternately to the mixture with the milk, and lastly fold in the egg whites beaten stiff. Bake in a moderate oven forty-five minutes. Cover with plain confectioner's or boiled frosting, crease in squares, and put a walnut meat on each square.

Walnut Cake.
3/4 cupful butter or oleomargarine 1 cupful sugar 1/8 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful vanilla
1/2 cupful milk
1 3/4 cupfuls pastry flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
3 egg yolks 1 whole egg
Beat the butter to a cream, then blend in the sugar, till fluffy. Add the salt, vanilla and egg and egg yolks, well beaten. Then sift together the flour and baking powder and add alternately with the milk, beating well with each addition. Bake in a tube pan forty-five minutes in a moderate oven and cover with walnut cream icing.
 
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