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Josephine Cake

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 4

Time: 40 minutes. Serves 3-4.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 775. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Josephine Cake. — Beat four ounces of fresh butter to a cream, mix with it three ounces of pounded and sifted sugar, which, before being powdered, has been well rubbed upon the rind of half a fresh lemon. Add three well-beaten eggs, half a pound of biscuit flour, a quarter of a pound of picked currants, and two table-spoonfuls of sherry or madeira

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