Queen Cakes

Name: Queen Cakes
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes: about 18 cakes
Ingredients: generous pinch ground mace; 120 g / 4 oz caster sugar; 120 g / 4 oz currants; 175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour; milk to mix; ½ lemon or small orange, finely grated zest; 2 eggs; 120 g / 4 oz butter; 1 tbs granulated sugar

Preparation info

Makes: about
18
cakes

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Light, dainty cakes, traditionally scented with mace and studded with currants. The earliest recipe that I’ve found appears in a manuscript cookery book inscribed by ‘Radolphus Ayres Cook Oxford 1721’. This manuscript was published in facsimile by the Bodleian Library in 2006.

Ingredients

120 g / 4 oz butter
120 g / 4

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time with the grated lemon zest, adding a little flour if need be to prevent the mixture from separating. Fold in half the sifted flour, then the remainder with the ground mace and currants, adding a little milk to make a fairly soft consistency. Spoon dessertspoonfuls of the mixture into the prepared patty tins or pap