Madeira Cake

Ingredients

• Five ounces of Butter
• Five ounces of Castor Sugar
• Eight ounces of Flour
• Four Eggs
• A little Citron
• and grated Lemon-peel

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, add the grated lemon-peel, stir in the eggs one at a time, sift the flour and add it by degrees.

2. 2

   Butter a cake-tin, pour in the mixture, smooth it over and put a few pieces of citron on the top.

3. 3

   Bake forty minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High-class cookery recipes (1897) by Edith Nicolls Clarke, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Madeira Cake. Ingredients, Five ounces of Butter. Five ounces of Castor Sugar. Eight ounces of Flour. Four Eggs. A little Citron, and grated Lemon-peel

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