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Madeleine Cakes without Butter

From The encyclopædia of practical cookery, 1890

Serves 3

These madeleines are lighter without butter.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

  • six eggs
  • Jib. of caster sugar
  • 5oz. of dried and sifted flour
  • a small quantity of lemon- or orange-peel

Method

  1. Beat eggs with sugar until frothy.

  2. Gradually mix in flour and grated peel.

  3. Grease moulds, fill with mixture, and bake in a slack oven.

  4. Store in biscuit tins until needed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Madeleine Cakes without Butter. — Put six eggs in a basin with Jib. of caster sugar and beat them until frothy, then mix in gradually 5oz. of dried and sifted flour, and grate in a small quantity of lemon- or orange-peel

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