Lincoln'S Favorite Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 c. butter
1 c. sugar
2 c. flour
1 c. milk
2 Tbsp. baking powder
1 c. blanched almonds
1 tsp. vanilla
6 egg whites
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. candied pineapple and cherries, chopped fine

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar.
Sift flour and baking powder together; add to first mixture alternately with milk.
Add almonds and vanilla.
Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites, to which salt has been added.
Bake at 350\u00b0 in 3 layers in 8 or 9-inch pans for about 25 minutes.