If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln Cake


1 cup butter

2 cups sugar

1 cup milk

3 cups flour (cake or pastry)

2 tsps. baking powder (double-acting)

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup chopped, blanched almonds

1/4 tsp. salt

6 egg whites

Cream butter and sugar lightly.

Sift flour and baking powder together and add alternately with milk (to the first mixture).

Add well-floured nuts, then vanilla.

Fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs, to which salt has been added.

Bake in three layers (9" or 8" pans) in moderate (350˚F) oven.

Ice with boiled icing, to which add 1/2 cup candied pineapple and cherries, chopped fine.