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Manx Cake

From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1890. 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 The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Manx Cake. — Take a few lumps of sugar and rub off all the peel from half a lemon. Weigh the sugar, and add sufficient of pounded sugar to make up Jib. Put Jib. of ground rice into a basin and add the pounded sugar. Break four eggs into a basin and whisk them until, upon taking up a spoon- ful, there are no threads, which will be about half-an-hour, then put in the lumps of sugar and let them dissolve ; mix all, adding slowly, with the flour

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