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My own Cake

From The handy dictionary of cookery, 1890
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 handy dictionary of cookery (1890) by Mary A. Everard, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

My own Cake. Cream six ounces of butter with four ounces of sifted sugar. Pass through a sieve four ounces of flour, and two ounces of rice flour. Add them to the butter. Also the yolks of four eggs well beaten, the rind of one lemon grated, the juice of half a lemon, one ounce of candied peel, two ounces of dried cherries, one ounce of angelica, finely mixed. Beat these altogether fifteen minutes ; then add the whites of two eggs

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