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       Title: LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S FAMOUS LEMON CAKE
  Categories: Desserts, Cakes, Celebrity, Bundt
       Yield: 16 Servings
  
     3/4 c  Butter or margarine
   1 1/2 c  Sugar
       8    Egg yolks
   1 1/2 c  Cake flour
       3 ts Baking powder
     1/4 ts Salt
     3/4 c  Milk
       1 ts Vanilla
       1 ts Lemon rind; grated
       1 ts Lemon juice
            LEMON ICING
       2 c  Powdered sugar
     1/4 c  Margarine; soft
       1    Lemon; juice and grated rind
       2 ts Heavy cream
            PUDDING
            Bananas; slice thin
     3/4 c  Sugar
       3    Egg yolks
   2 1/2 c  Milk
            MERINGUE
       3    Egg whites
       3 tb Sugar
       1 ts Vanilla
  
   Cream butter or margarine with sugar until light and fluffy. In separate
   bowl, beat egg yolks until light and lemon-colored; blend with creamed
   mixture. Sift together cake flour, baking powder and salt; re-sift 3 times.
   Add sifted ingredients in thirds, alternating with milk. Beat batter
   thoroughly after each addition. Add vanilla, lemon rind and juice and beat
   2 minutes. Bake at 325~ in bundt pan for 1 hour. Or, bake in 3 greased 9″
   pans at 350~. ICING-Combine all lemon icing ingredients and spread on cake.
  
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