Madeira Cake

Ingredients

• 8 ozs. self-raising flour
• 5 ozs. castor sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 3 eggs
• 4 ozs. butter or margarine
• 2 thin slices of citron peel

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar until soft and white.

2. 2

   Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a teaspoon of flour with each.

3. 3

   Sift in the flour, baking powder, and salt, and stir in lightly.

4. 4

   Bake in a lined tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book (1940) by Gas Council (Great Britain), page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Madeira Cake Number 4. Time 14 hours. Shelf 5th. 8 ozs. self-raising flour, 5 ozs. castor sugar. or 8 ozs. plain flourand1 heaped Pinch of salt. teaspoonful baking powder. 3 eggs. 4 ozs. butter or margarine. 2 thin slices of citron peel

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