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Cake, Madeira

From The handy dictionary of cookery, 1890

Bake for one hour.

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 handy dictionary of cookery (1890) by Mary A. Everard, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cake, Madeira. Take four ounces of flour ; rub finely into it two ounces of butter, and two ounces of fine sugar ; bind together with two well-beaten eggs. Just at the last mix in half a teaspoonful of baking powder

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