Rich Cake

Ingredients

• lib. of warmed butter
• lib. of caster sugar
• eight eggs
• lglb. of dried flour
• a grated nutmeg
• i teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon
• 2oz. of Caraway-seeds

Method

1. 1

   Beat the warmed butter to a cream, then add the caster sugar.

2. 2

   Separate the eggs, beating yolks and whites separately, then combine with the butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Mix in the dried flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, and Caraway-seeds.

4. 4

   Pour into a buttered tin and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 132. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lib. of caster sugar, gib. of ground sweet almonds, eight eggs well whisked, and 1 table-spoonful of Caraway-seeds. All these ingredients should be added and well mixed a little at a time. Pour the mixture into a tin or mould lined with buttered or oiled paper, and bake in a steady oven. (6) Irish. — Sift through a wire sieve gib. of ground rice. Break nine eggs and beat them for twenty minutes. Put 11b. of butter into a large basin, and with the back of a wooden spoon beat it to a cream ; add to it a little at a time 1 tea- cupful of rose-water and lib. of powdered white sugar, and continue beating till all is well mixed. Then gradually add the beaten eggs, and sprinkle in the sifted ground rice a little at a time. Put gib. of almonds into a bowl, pour boiling water over them, and let them stand for a few minutes, then slip them out of their skins, chop finely, and add to the ingredients in the large basin; at the same time add 1 teaspoonful of lemon-juice, and sprinkle in 1 teaspoonful of Caraway-seeds. Mix well together again, and pour into a buttered cake-tin. Bake for an-hour-and-a-half in a quick oven. (7) Rich. — Beat lib. of warmed butter to a cream, and then put in lib. of caster sugar. Break eight eggs into two basins, separating the yolks from the whites, beat them up separately, and then add to the butter and sugar. Beat in lglb. of dried flour, a grated nutmeg, i teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, and 2oz. of Caraway-seeds

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