Mrs. lyndon johnson's famous lemon cake
16 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| ¾ | cup | Butter or margerine |
| 1¼ | cup | Sugar |
| 8 | Egg yolks | |
| 2½ | cup | Cake flour |
| 3 | teaspoons | Baking powder |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¾ | cup | Milk |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon rind, grated |
| 1 | teaspoon | Lemon juice |
Directions
Preheat oven to 325F. Cream ¾ cup butter or margarine with 1¼ cups sugar until light and fluffy. In a separate bowl, beat 8 egg yolks until light and lemon colored; blend into creamed mixture. Sift together 2 ½ cups cake flour, 3 tsp. baking powder and ¼ tsp. salt; resift 3 times.
Add the sifted ingredients in thirds, alternating with ¾ cup milk. Beat the batter thoroughly after each addition. Add 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tsp.
grated lemon rind and 1 tsp. lemon juice and beat 2 minutes. Bake in a greased Bundt pan for 1 hour or until a straw inserted in the center comes out clean. AS REPRINTED from Ladies' Home Journal, August 1965. From Poppy Cannon's WHITE HOUSE COOKBOOK. Formatted for Prodigy's Food BB by Linda Caldwell WWGQ25A
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by SharonFK@... on Mar 31, 97