Almond Simnel Cake

Ingredients

• half a pound of butter
• half a pound of sugar
• two ounces of rice flour
• four eggs
• seven ounces of flour
• half a pound of currants

Method

1. 1

   Mix all together in the same way as for a plum cake.

2. 2

   Put a layer of the mixture in a cake tin; then a layer of almond icing; then another layer of the mixture.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven, and when nearly cooked, take it out and place tiny balls of almond icing round the top of the cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A second Dudley book of cookery and other recipes (1914) by Dudley, Georgiana Countess of, page 111. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ALMOND SIMNEL CAKE HALF a pound of butter, half a pound of sugar, two ounces of rice flour, four eggs, seven ounces of flour and half a pound of currants

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