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Silver Cake
From Tried favourites cookery book, 1909
Serves 4
Presented as published in 1909. 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 Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 155. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Silver Cakes. (To be made together, one using yolks of eggs, and the other the whites.) i lb. Sugar, i lb. Flour, i lb. Butter, yolks of 5 Eggs (well beaten), the grated rind of an Orange soaked in juice of a Lemon, i teaspoonful Carbonate of Soda dissolved in i gill Water, a little Essence of Lemon. Beat butter to cream, add sugar, then flour, then yolks. Bmt for 6 minutes, add soda, and lastly strained juice of lemon. Bake about I hour. Silver Cake. i lb. Sugar, i lb. Butter, 6 oz. Flour, whites of 5 Eggs, i teaspoonful Essence of Almonds
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