from Ania’s friend Sylvia Bishop

• 2 ½ cups sugar
• 2 sticks butter
• 4 eggs, separated
• 3 cups flour
• 1 cup buttermilk
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• Juice of 1 lemon

Preheat oven to 325 degrees; generously butter a tube or Bundt pan. Cream sugar and butter; add yolks. Add flour, then buttermilk, soda, vanilla, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Beat egg whites on high speed until whites reach stiff peaks. Gently fold egg whites into batter.

Pour batter into pan and bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour 15 minutes. Combine 1 cup powdered sugar and juice of 1 lemon and spread over hot cake.