Florence White

Suffolk Cakes

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

This recipe from Mrs. Anstey’s receipt book was obtained by her when staying with relatives in Suffolk before her marriage in 1859.

Ingredients

  • Eggs 4
  • fine white sugar ½ lb.
  • lemon, the grated rind of half

Method

  1. Beat the whites and yolks of the eggs separately; the whites to be beaten to a very stiff froth, and
  2. the well-beaten yolks added.
  3. Sift in the sugar.
  4. Add the grated rind of half a lemon.
  5. Beat in the butter which must be warmed.
  6. Sift in the flour.
  7. Bake in nests of small moulds, or small separate t