Family Recipe Friday - Grandma Koch's Orange Cake 1862

FROM GRANDMA FLO'S RECIPE BOX

 
This is an interesting recipe I found in my grandmother's recipe box. It is a recipe from her grandmother Margaret  Werhle Koch. I don't know how she obtained this recipe.

GRANDMA KOCHS ORANGE CAKE 1862

2 cups sugar
2 1/4 cups flour
1/2 cup water
2 whole eggs & 3 egg yolks us whites for frosting
2 tsp cream of Tartar
1 tsp soda

Juice of 1 orange
grate rind for frosting

It is interesting that it appears to be just of list of ingredients. It doesn't say what pan to put it in, what temperature to cook it or for how long.



Margaret Werhle Koch, was born Margaret Bauer abt 1838 in Bavaria Germany. She first married Henry Werhle 18 September 1859 in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. She had two dauthers, Mary Louise born July 4, 1860 in Elyria,Lorain, Ohio and Katherine born June 15, 1862 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summitt, Ohio. Margaret later married Henry Koch (date unknown) and had three more children, Henry J (Harry) born abt 1869 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit, Ohio; Charles Edward born November 28, 1871 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit, Ohio and Ella May born abt 1873 in Cuyahoga Falls, Summit, Ohio. Margaret died September 23, 1900 in Warm Springs, Deer Lodge, Montana.