Modena Cake

Ingredients

• 6 oz of butter
• 1 lb of flour
• 1 lb of sugar
• six eggs
• about 1 saltspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• a little grated lemon-peel
• some candied lemon-peel, cut into thin slices

Method

1. 1

   Work the butter until creamy, then rub it into flour and sugar.

2. 2

   Whisk the eggs for a quarter of an hour, mix in the flour and sugar gradually, add lemon peel and candied lemon peel, and mix in bicarbonate of soda.

3. 3

   Line a tin with buttered paper, put in the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Modena Cake. — Take Goz. of butter and work until it be- comes like a cream, then rub it into Jib. of flour and Jib. of sugar. Whisk six eggs for a-quarter-of-an-hour, and mix the flour and sugar gradually witli the eggs, then add a little grated lemon-peel and some candied lemon-peel, cut into thin slices, and finally mix in about J saltspoonful of bicarbonate of soda

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