English Fairy Cakes

Ingredients

• six ounces of flour
• a half teaspoonful of baking powder
• grate a lemon rind
• three ounces chopped candied cherries
• four ounces of butter
• four of sugar
• three eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift flour and baking powder, add lemon rind and cherries.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs one at a time, then flour mixture.

3. 3

   Fill buttered patty-tins half full with batter, bag, and bake in a moderate oven for twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

English Fairy Cakes. — Sift together six ounces of flour and a half teaspoonful of baking powder. Grate a lemon rind and add to the sifted flour together with three ounces chopped candied cherries. Beat to a cream four ounces of butter and four of sugar, then add three eggs

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