Walnut Cake

Ingredients

• 4 Eggs
• ½ Lb. Sugar
• ½ Lb. Flour
• 4 Ozs. Butter
• 1 Teaspoonful Baking Powder

Method

1. 1

   Beat sugar and eggs for twenty minutes; add melted butter, and stir in flour lightly, having previously added baking powder, a pinch of salt, and flavouring.

2. 2

   Half the mixture, pour one part into a well-buttered tin; colour the other half, and do likewise.

3. 3

   When cake is cooked, cut each piece in half, ice each piece, and stack to make a four-layer cake.

4. 4

   Ice the top and ornament with walnuts.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Evans' recipe cookery book (1900), page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WALNUT CAKE. ingredients. 4 Eggs. JLb. Sugar, £ Lb. Flour. 4 Ozs. Butter. i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Beat sugar and eggs for twenty minutes ; add butter (melted), and stir in flour as lightly as possible, having previously added baking powder, a pinch of salt and flavouring according to taste. Half the mixture, and pour one part into a well-buttered tin ; colour the other half, and do likewise. When cake is cooked, cut each piece in half, and ice each piece. Put one on top of the other, to make cake of four layers. Ice the top, and ornament with walnuts. Icing. — £ lb. butter ; | lb. icing sugar ; £ lb, walnuts. ORANGE CAKE. ingredients, i Lb. Flour. | Lb. Butter. i Lb. Castor Sugar. 2 Oranges. A Little Icing Sugar. 4 Eggs. 1 Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; beat eggs with tablespoonful of milk ; sift flour through hair sieve * add flour slowly to butter and sugar ; mix lightly but well ; when rather stiff add milk and eggs gradually ; add grated rinds of oranges (which should be well washed and dried) ; add baking powder ; pour mixture into buttered tin, and bake in good oven for thirty minutes. When baked, turn upside down on sieve and spread icing (see below) evenly. For Icing.— Squeeze and strain juice of oranges ; pass icing sugar through wire sieve ; add to juice sufficient sugar to give consistency of double cream ; spread with knife dipped in boiling water. Ingredients. 189 GINGER CAKE. i Lb. Flour. 4 Ozs. Brown Sugar. 1 Teaspoonful Cinnamon. 2 Teaspoonfuls Baking Powder. 4 Ozs. Butter. 4 Ozs. Syrup. 2 Teaspoonfuls Ground Ginger. 2 Eggs. A Little Milk. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; mix syrup and spices, and warm ; mix flour and baking powder ; thoroughly mix all these ; beat eggs and add, with sufficient milk to bring to right consistency ; pour into cake tin lined with buttered paper ; bake in slow oven for about two hours. PRESERVED ingredients. 1 Lb. Flour.

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