Black
Walnut Cake
1/2 cup butter
4 eggs, separated
2 cup flour, sifted
3/4 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk
1 cup black walnuts; fine chopped
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg
yolks all at once. Add vanilla. Sift dry ingredients together.
Set aside 1 cup of the dry ingredients. Add the remaining
flour mixture and the milk in small portions, alternately,
mixing well with each addition, starting and ending with an
addition of the dry ingredients.
Mix together, the reserved flour and the nuts, and stir
into the batter, mixing just until blended. Beat the egg
whites until stiff, but not dry. Fold them into the batter.
Bake in a 9x5 inch greased and floured loaf pan at 350 about
50-60 minutes, or until done. Frost with your favorite icing.
