Carraway Seed Cake
From Plain cookery recipes, 1908
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This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
One teaspoonful of baking- powder. About half a gill milk. Prepare and bake as for Luncheon Cake. Madeira Cake. Eight ounces flour. Five ounces butter. Five ounces castor sugar. Grated lemon rind. Four eggs. One teaspoonful of baking- powder. Citron peel. Sieve the flour, cream the butter and sugar, add the grated lemon rind. Add the flour and eggs by degrees, and beat well. Add the baking-powder with the last spoonful of flour. T urn into a greased and papered tin ; place the citron peel on the top. Place in a moderate oven, and bake steadily for one and a half hours. Carraway Seed Cake. Half a pound flour. Quarter of a pound butter. Quarter of a pound castor sugar. Two eggs. One dessertspoonful carraway seeds. One teaspoonful of baking- powder. A little milk
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