This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
White cake layers with orange icing (frosting). Make the best white cake, No. 622, and bake on jelly-cake pans. Grate the rinds of 2 or 3 oranges into 2 large cups powdered sugar. Take 3 whites of eggs in a bowl, put the flavored sugar in, and beat with a wooden paddle until you have a pale yellow icing firm enough not to run off the cake. Spread some between the layers and the rest aver the top and sides.
 
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