A Closer Look at this Previously Featured Amish Recipe

2 ¼ cups flour

¾ cup granulated sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon salt

¾ cup brown sugar

½ cup salad oil

5 egg yolks

¾ cup cold water

2 teaspoons maple flavoring

5 egg whites

½ teaspoon cream of tartar

1 cup nuts

Preheat oven to 325^o.  Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into mixing bowl.  Stir in brown sugar and make a well in dry ingredients.  In this order add salad oil, egg yolks, water andfavoring.  Beat until satin smooth.  Combine egg whites and cream of tartar in large mixing bowl.  Beat until stiff (stiffer than angel food).  Pour egg yolk batter in thin stream over entire surface of egg whites, gently cutting and folding down across bottom, up the side, and over just until blended.  Fold in nuts.  Bake in ungreased tube pan at 325^o for 55 minutes.  Cool. Frost with maple flavored frosting.