Nut Cakes

Ingredients

• Meat from 1 lb. pecans
• 1 lb. powdered sugar
• ¼ cup flour
• Whites 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Steps

1. Pound nut meat and mix with sugar and flour. Beat whites of eggs until stiff, add first mixture and vanilla. Drop from tip of tablespoon (allowing one spoonful for each cake) on a tin sheet covered with buttered paper. Bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven.

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From The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910), now in the public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg.