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Tennis Cake

From Bread, cakes, and biscuits, 1902

This cake is themed for tennis and can be decorated creatively.

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bake a cherry cake in a buttered tin loaf mould, and when perfectly cold cover with a half-inch layer of almond icing, and when set cover this with a green royal icing, mark out courts with plain royal icing-, stretch a net across on two fancy pins, and, if possible, arrange balls and rackets in spun sugar or piping

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