Apple Cake

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoon fills of castor sugar
• 1 lb. apples
• ^ lb flour (self-raising)
• 3 ozs. butter
• 1 egg
• and cream

Method

1. 1

   Cook apples till very soft with sugar and cloves or lemon.

2. 2

   Set aside to cool.

3. 3

   Have a sandwich tin greased.

4. 4

   Rub butter and flour thoroughly together, add egg well-beaten, then cream, to make into a stiff paste.

5. 5

   Roll out and divide pastry in two.

6. 6

   Line tin with paste; put in apples, then put the other half of paste on top, bake in a quick oven, and turn out when partly cold.

7. 7

   Sift icing sugar over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The St. Mungo cookery book (1904) by Jean Lambie, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE CAKE. 2 tablespoon fills of castor 2 cloves or a little essence sugar. of lemon. I lb. apples. Cook apples till very soft with sugar and cloves or lemon. Set aside to cool. Paste — ^ lb flour (self-raising). | 3 ozs. butter. I egg and cream

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