Dry Cake

The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bre... · Beaty-Pownall, S · 1904
Source
The "Queen" cookery books. No.11. bread, cakes, and biscuits
Time
Cook: 30 min Total: 30 min
Status
success · extracted 4 days ago
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Ingredients (7)
Cake batter
Instructions (7)
  1. Soak 1lb. of butter overnight in either orange flower or rose water.
  2. Rub the soaked butter into 1lb. of fine flour mixed with 1lb. of caster sugar.
  3. Beat the yolks of six eggs with a little brandy, and mix these into the flour mixture.
  4. Optionally, add 1/2lb. of well washed and dried currants to the mixture.
  5. Lastly, mix in the whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth.
  6. Bake half an hour in well-buttered tins, in a sharp, but not scorching, oven.
  7. This cake will keep for six months.
Original Text · last edited 4 days ago
Dry.—Soak 1lb. of butter overnight in either orange flower or rose water, then rub it into 1lb. of fine flour mixed with 1lb. of caster sugar; beat the yolks of six eggs with a little brandy, and mix these into the flour, etc., adding, if liked, ½lb. of well washed and dried currants to the mixture (this is optional), and, lastly, mix in the whites of eight eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake half an hour in well-buttered tins, in a sharp, but not scorching, oven. This cake will keep for six months.
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