Good Friday Cake

Ingredients

• a scant cupful of butter
• a quarter cupful of sugar
• a teaspoonful of the grated yellow rind of lemon
• a half teaspoonful of lemon juice
• a pound of flour
• enough water to make a stiff paste

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to cream, add lemon rind, lemon juice, flour, and water to make a stiff paste.

2. 2

   Divide dough, roll into large round cakes, mark edges, cut into quarters, brush with egg white, lay candied lemon peel, sprinkle with sugar, put in bag, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Standard Paper-Bag Cookery (1912) by Emma Paddock Telford, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Good Friday Cake. — This is a simple tea cake, not very sweet, and is served hot or cold as preferred. To make it, beat to a cream a scant cupful of butter and a quarter cupful of sugar. Add a teaspoonful of the STANDARD PAPER BAG COOKERY 107 grated yellow rind of lemon, a half teaspoonful of lemon juice, a pound of flour and enough water to make a stiff paste

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