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Madeira Cake

Name: Madeira Cake
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: four fresh eggs; six ounces of dry, pounded, and sifted sugar; six ounces of flour; four ounces of butter; the rind of a fresh lemon; the third of a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda

From Modern cookery, in all its branches, 1884

Serves 2

Ensure butter is well incorporated before adding the next ingredient.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 476. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MADEIRA CAKE, Whisk four fresh eggs until they are as light as possible, then, continuing still to whisk them, throw in by slow degrees the follow- ing ingredients in the order in which they are written : six ounces of dry, pounded, and sifted sugar ; six of flour, also dried and sifted ; four ounces of butter just dissolved, but not heated ; the rind of a fresh lemon ; and the instant before the cake is moulded, beat well in the third of a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda

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