Cake without butter

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (11)
Instructions (11)
  1. Beat up eight eggs for half an hour.
  2. Add powdered and sifted one pound of loaf sugar, and beat it half an hour longer.
  3. Add a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds beat fine with orange-flower water.
  4. Grate the rind of a lemon into the almonds, and squeeze in the juice.
  5. Mix all together.
  6. Just before you put it in the oven, add a quarter of a pound of dry flour.
  7. Rub the hoop or tin with butter.
  8. An hour and a half will bake it.
Another
  1. Take ten eggs and the whites of five; whisk them well.
  2. Beat in one pound of finely sifted sugar.
  3. Beat in three quarters of a pound of flour: the flour to be put in just before the cake is going to the oven.
Original Text
Cake without butter. Beat up eight eggs for half an hour. Have ready powdered and sifted one pound of loaf sugar; shake it in, and beat it half an hour longer. Put to it a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds beat fine with orange-flower water; grate the rind of a lemon into the almonds, and squeeze in the juice. Mix all together. Just before you put it in the oven, add a quarter of a pound of dry flour; rub the hoop or tin with butter. An hour and a half will bake it. Another. Take ten eggs and the whites of five; whisk them well, and beat in one pound of finely sifted sugar, and three quarters of a pound of flour: the flour to be put in just before the cake is going to the oven.
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