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AUNT GRETEL WAGNER’S POUND CAKE

Ingredients
2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoon baking powder
1 lemon rind (zest)
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk or sour cream
1/4 pound of butter

1/2 of a 1/4 pound of butter
1/2-3/4 cup raisins (optional)

roll the raisins in flour before adding to batter

Instructions
Combine all ingredients and pour into a greased pan at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes.

The above picture was taken of a cake I baked using sour cream as an ingredient .
I found that the cake was better the second day.

Aunt Gretel Wagner is my Oma’s (Gertrud Roemer Nehlsen) sister. She was married to
August Wagner. They moved from Germany to Ann Arbor, Michigan. They came to New
York to visit and I remember a summer trip to Ann Arbor when I was a young girl. On
the way to Ann Arbor, we stopped at Niagara Falls. I remember that trip well because
my hay fever allergies were terrible. We also went to Old Museum Village, which I

enjoyed.

AUNT GRETEL WAGNER’S OBST TORTE

Ingredients
2 large eggs separated 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup flour 1/2 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking powder

Instructions
Beat egg yolks with 2 tablespoons warm water until frothy. Gradually add 2/3 of the sugar
and continue beating to cream like consistency. Beat egg white until very sti gradually

adding the remainder of the sugar. Put on top of yolk mixture. Mix flour with cornstarch,
baking powder and add to egg mixture. Very gently fold these together. Bake in a greased
and floured fluted tin pan at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

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