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Biscuit Cake

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This recipe is from an 18th century handwritten recipe book hosted at Wiki Commons. It has been rewritten in modern language, with some details added.

Ingredients

  • 8 eggs
  • 1 pound butter, softened and cut in pieces
  • 1 pound white granulated sugar
  • 1 pound all-purpose flour
  • ½ pod nutmeg, grated
  • A few caraway seeds

Instructions

  1. 1
    Beat together the eggs, butter, and sugar until very creamy.
  2. 2
    Combine the flour, nutmeg, and caraway seeds.
  3. 3
    Add the dry mixture to the egg mixture, and beat for 1 hour.
  4. 4
    Transfer to a pan, and bake for 1 hour. Let cool and unmold.
Method
Baking

Recipe Attribution

Wikibooks Cookbook
en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Biscuit_Cake