A Delicate Cake

Name: A Delicate Cake
Ingredients: Beat seven ounces of butter to a cream; stir into it a pound of powdered sugar; and a pound of sifted flour; then add the whites of eight eggs beaten to a froth; half a small nutmeg grated; and a little lemon extract

From The English-Chinese cookery book, 1890

Five or six ounces of pounded almonds may be added to this cake, according to taste.

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beat seven ounces of butter to a cream, and stir into it a pound of powdered sugar, and a pound of sifted flour; then add the whites of eight eggs beaten to a froth, half a small nutmeg grated, and a little lemon o A DELICATE CAKE

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