Madeira Cake.
- Ingredients—10 oz. of flour.
- 10 oz. of lump sugar.
- ¼ lb. of butter.
- 6 eggs.
- ½ gill of water.
Method.—Boil the water and sugar to a syrup.
Pour when hot, but not boiling, on to the eggs and beat over hot water until light.
Melt the butter and stir it in very lightly with the flour.
Oil a mould and dust it with castor sugar.
Pour in the mixture, and bake from one hour and a half to two hours.