Make the cake mixture No. 442, and drop in round cakes on sheets of paper, dredge with sugar and bake. Spread lemon butter between two placed together.
Lemon Butter, or Paste, or Cheesecake, or Lemon Honey (580)
A world-wide favorite, made of
1 cupful of sugar-8 ounces.
3 lemons.
Butter, size of an egg-2 ounces.
4 to 6 yolks or 3 whole eggs-not particular.
Cut the sugar, butter, grated rinds and juice into a saucepan and boil, add the yolks and stir until it becomes thick.
Whitehead’s Family Cook Book, 1891