Madeira Cake (another way)

Ingredients

• Half a pound of flour
• A quarter of a pound of butter
• Half a pound of castor sugar
• Two slices of citron
• Five eggs
• a tablespoonful of flour
• One small dessertspoonful of lemon kali, or a small tea spoonful of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until they are quite white; then add the eggs, one at a time, beating in each one thoroughly, adding a tablespoonful of flour with the fifth egg to prevent curdling; when the eggs are well beaten in, add the remainder of the flour by degrees, and lastly the lemon kali.

2. 2

   Put the mixture into a cake tin lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderate oven for about one hour and a half.

3. 3

   One tablespoonful of brandy may be added if the cake is to be kept.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MADEIRA CAKE (another way) Ingredients Half a pound of flour. One small dessertspoonful of A quarter of a pound of butter. lemon kali, or a small tea* Half a pound of castor sugar. spoonful of baking powder. Two slices of citron. Five eggs. Beat the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until they are quite white; then add the eggs, one at a time, beating in each one thoroughly, adding a, table- spoonful of flour

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