{"id":5745,"slug":"lady-cake","title":"Lady cake.","description":"From The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book (1919) by Victor Hirtzler.","ingredients_raw":["One pound of sugar","three-quarters of a pound of sweet butter","one pound of flour","two ounces of corn starch","half a teaspoonful of baking powder","the whites of sixteen eggs","rose flavoring"],"ingredients_norm":["sugar","quarters of pound of sweet butter","flour","corn starch","baking powder","whites of sixteen egg","rose flavoring"],"steps":["Mix the sugar with the butter and half of the whites of eggs.","Mix the flour, corn starch and baking powder together, and add it to the first mixture.","Beat the remainder of the whites of eggs until very hard, and add them to the preceding.","Add the rose flavoring, mix lightly, put in mould and bake in the same manner as pound cake."],"categories":[],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":null,"source_name":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39550","source_ref":"pg:39550:w95:4","authors_url":null,"license":"Public domain (US)","license_url":null,"extraction_confidence":0.95,"content_hash":"714d1d78c63f6e098e15b74d426176d8fcc0328bfca3a437d36b7a9db957f004","created_at":"2026-08-02T16:46:28Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:32Z","notice":"Historical recipe (1919), reproduced as published: it may reflect its era's ingredients, language, and food-safety practices. Apply modern judgment on cooking temperatures and preservation.","url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/lady-cake"}