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Title

Orange Cake / Boiled Orange Frosting

Subject

butter

sugar

eggs

orange juice

orange

lemon juice

flour

baking soda

egg white

Description

Orange Cake

1⁄3 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1⁄2 cup Sunkist orange juice
Grated rind 1 Sunkist orange
1 tablespoon Sunkist lemon juice
13⁄4 cups flour
1⁄2 teaspoon soda

Cream butter; add sugar, gradually,
and eggs, beaten until thick and lemon-
colored. Sift flour and soda together four
times; add alternately with combined
fruit juices and rind to first mixture. Put
in buttered and floured cake-pan, and
bake in a moderate oven thirty-five or
forty minutes. Cover with Boiled Orange
Frosting.

Boiled Orange Frosting

In a smooth agate saucepan put 1 cup sugar and
1⁄3 cup Sunkist orange juice and grated rind of orange,
mix well, and boil, being careful not to stir or disturb
syrup until it will spin a long thread when it drips from
tip of spoon. Lift gently from fire, and pour slowly,
while beating vigorously with a strong egg-beater, in
a fine stream onto 1 egg white which has been beaten
until light but not stiff. Continue beating until frost-
ing is stiff enough to stay in place, pour all at once onto
cake and spread over surface with a few movements
of a large, flat knife.

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# Orange Cake

## Ingredients

- 1/3 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup Sunkist orange juice
- Grated rind of 1 Sunkist orange
- 1 Tbsp Sunkist lemon juice
- 1 3/4 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda

## Instructions

1. Cream butter; add sugar gradually, and eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored.
2. Sift flour and soda together four times; add alternately with combined fruit juices and rind to first mixture.
3. Put in buttered and floured cake pan, and bake in a moderate oven thirty-five or forty minutes.
4. Cover with Boiled Orange Frosting.

## Boiled Orange Frosting

### Ingredients

- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup Sunkist orange juice
- Grated rind of 1 orange
- 1 egg white, beaten until light but not stiff

### Instructions

1. In a smooth agate saucepan put 1 cup sugar and 1/3 cup Sunkist orange juice and grated rind of orange; mix well and boil, being careful not to stir or disturb syrup until it will spin a long thread when it drips from tip of spoon.
2. Lift gently from fire, and pour slowly in a fine stream onto 1 egg white which has been beaten until light but not stiff, while beating vigorously with a strong egg-beater.
3. Continue beating until frosting is stiff enough to stay in place.
4. Pour all at once onto cake and spread over surface with a few movements of a large, flat knife.

Creator

Alice Yetka, Martha Yetka

Source

RCA0006 - The Yetka family collection that started the project (eBay)

Date

1950s

Rights

Personal/Family

Format

Printed pamphlet page

Identifier

RCA0006-20260609-0013

Coverage

Oregon, US