Madeira Cake
Over a year ago
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Prep: 5 mins
Cook: 75 mins
Serves: 8
Ingredients
- 8oz Caster sugar
- 8oz Butter
- 8oz Self Raising Flour
- 4 eggs
- 2oz ground almonds
Accompaniment
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Description
Mum used to make this recipe for Madeira sponge cake quite often
Method
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1
Cream the butter and sugar.
Add the eggs and beat well.
Add flour and ground almonds
Cook at 350F for 11/4 hours
Loving the Madeira cake - very quick and simple recipe :)
(great photo nostalgia too)
I thought I would take a photo of mum's magic cookbook to show you all what she left me. It's pretty dog-eared and frayed at the edges by now and of course the ink is fading fast - not to mention the stains left over from many a meal cooked in a hurry or laboured over for hours. Clearly a magician's almanac. I am delighted that I have been able to preserve some of the recipes here on mydish for all time and also readily share them with my sister in the USA.
I can see that it takes 1hr 15mins to cook, what size tin is used please?
how long to cook?