Geranium Cake - 1800s recipe
From jenh626 16 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Original Geranium Cake recipe as copied by my grandmother in a cook book from the 1800's
Ingredients
- 1/2 teacupful butter shopping list
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 2/3 cupfull water shopping list
- 2 cupfulls flour shopping list
- 1 teaspoonful eggs shopping list
How to make it
- Stir one-half teacupfull butter to a cream with one cup sugar.
- Add by degrees
- Two Thirds cupfull water and two cupfulls flour which have sifter with one teaspoonful eggs
- Line a square tin with oiled paper over which place a layer of rose geranium leaves
- Pour the cake mixture over the leaves and bake (no time is indicated)
- Pull off leaves.
- Icing-
- Boil 1/3 teacupful water, 1 teacupful sugar for approx 10 mins or until it hardens in cold water
- Add three teaspoonful cream, beat until cool
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