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Rich bride cake.
Take 4 pounds sifted flour, 4 pounds sweet, fresh butter beaten to cream, 2
pounds powdered sugar; take 6 eggs for each pound of flour, 1 ounce mace or
nutmeg and a tablespoonful of lemon extract or orange flower water.
Queen cake.
Beat a pound of butter to cream and mix with a tablespoonful rosewater; add a
pound fine white sugar, 10 beaten eggs and a pound and a quarter sifted flour.
Mix well and beat, and then add half a pound of shelled almonds, blanched and
beaten to a paste. Butter tin basins, line them with white paper, fill in the
mixture one inch and a half deep, and bake for 1 hour in a quick oven.
Sponge cake.
The desirable feature of good sponge cake is its lightness, which is only
attained by long continued hard beating; to do this well requires 2 persons.
While, one beats the yolk for 15 or 20 minutes, as light and
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