Name: Walnut Layer Cake
Ingredients: 1–2 teasp. coffee essence; 4 oz. icing sugar; 1 level teasp. baking-powder; 2 teasp. coffee essence; 2 oz. butter or margarine; 3 eggs; 6 oz. castor sugar; pinch of salt; 6 oz. plain flour; 6 oz. butter or margarine; American frosting, using 8 oz. sugar, etc.; 2 oz. chopped walnuts

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Difficulty
Easy

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Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1861

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Ingredients

6 oz. butter or margarine
6 oz. castor sugar
3

Method

Cream fat and sugar; beat in the eggs, one at a time. Fold in the sifted flour, baking-powder and salt and add coffee essence. Put mixture into a 6-in. lined cake-tin (or it may be baked in 2 or 3 sandwich cake-tins) and bake in a moderate oven (350° F., Gas 4) for 1 hr. Cut the cake into

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