Lafayette Cakes

Ingredients

• 6 oz. of flour
• 6 oz. of butter
• 6 oz. of castor sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar with a silver fork till the butter is creamed, break in one egg, and beat lightly.

2. 2

   Mix the baking powder with the flour and then stir in a little flour, add another egg, then more flour till all is used up; beat for a few more minutes, and then pour into a well-buttered, very shallow tin, and bake at once from ten to fifteen minutes.

3. 3

   Cut the cake when done into thin fingers three or four inches long by two broad.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "A1" cookery book (1901) by H. N. L., page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lafayette Cakes. — 6 oz. of flour, 6 oz. of butter, 6 oz. of castor sugar, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon of baking powder

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