Carraway Cake

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• ½ lb. castor sugar
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 6 oz. fine flour
• 1 teaspoonful carraway seeds
• 2 oz. butter (dissolved but not oiled)

Method

1. 1

   Break the eggs into a bowl.

2. 2

   Stand in another containing boiling water.

3. 3

   Whisk with them the sugar for fifteen minutes, or until it becomes thick.

4. 4

   Mix in flour, baking powder, butter and carraway seeds.

5. 5

   Put into a tin and bake thirty to forty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Berridge House recipe book (1910), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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