Cake

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Yield
1.0 cake
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
Instructions (9)
  1. Boil the sugar and water together until they form a thick syrup.
  2. Let it cool a little, then pour it to the eggs, which should be previously well whisked.
  3. After the eggs and syrup are mixed together, continue beating them for a few minutes.
  4. Grate the lemon-rind.
  5. Mix the carbonate of soda with the flour.
  6. Stir these lightly to the other ingredients.
  7. Add the lemon-juice.
  8. When the whole is thoroughly mixed, pour it into a buttered mould.
  9. Bake in rather a quick oven for rather more than 1 hour.
Original Text
II. 1784. INGREDIENTS.—1/2 lb. of loaf sugar, not quite 1/4 pint of water, 5 eggs, 1 lemon, 1/2 lb. of flour, 1/4 teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. Mode.—Boil the sugar and water together until they form a thick syrup; let it cool a little, then pour it to the eggs, which should be previously well whisked; and after the eggs and syrup are mixed together, continue beating them for a few minutes. Grate the lemon-rind, mix the carbonate of soda with the flour, and stir these lightly to the other ingredients; then add the lemon-juice, and, when the whole is thoroughly mixed, pour it into a buttered mould, and bake in rather a quick oven for rather more than 1 hour. The remains of sponge or Savoy cakes answer very well for trifles, light puddings, &c.; and a very stale one (if not mouldy) makes an excellent tipsy-cake. Time.—Rather more than 1 hour. Average cost, 10d. Sufficient to make 1 cake. Seasonable at any time.
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