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John and Henry Locke cookery archive, item 2, 1830s?
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Prima Donna Cake Formula 13 or 14 2 lbs butter 2 lbs dry corn flour 2 lbs eggs weighed in the shells 1 3/4 lbs fine Caster sugar & vanilla small [illegible] spoonful of rum Instructions Cream well up for 10 minutes the Butter and Cornflour then gradually well beat in the eggs & Sugar about 2 eggs and 2 [oz ?] of Sugar at the time untill used up. Paper the Bottoms of the tins & grease sides & Centre peice & put the mixture into the tins 8 or 9 [og?] for the 6d ones & double for the 1/- ones heat of oven about 380 dont open the oven door for the first ten minutes they are in or they may [underlined] Blister [/underlined] dont use damp cornflour & dont use anything else in flour & no [underlined] powder [/underlined] dont use anything else in fat only Butter & get all the water out of it before creaming up [underlined] use [/underlined] only tins wash Centre peice through well dust the tops with icing sugar after they [underlined] are baked [/underlined] the well creaming up & beating up is one of the Cheif things in this [underlined] mixing[/underlined]
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Prima Donna Cake Formula 13 or 14 2 lbs butter 2 lbs dry corn flour 2 lbs eggs weighed in the shells 1 3/4 lbs fine Caster sugar & vanilla small [illegible] spoonful of rum Instructions Cream well up for 10 minutes the Butter and Cornflour then gradually well beat in the eggs & Sugar about 2 eggs and 2 [oz ?] of Sugar at the time untill used up. Paper the Bottoms of the tins & grease sides & Centre peice & put the mixture into the tins 8 or 9 [og?] for the 6d ones & double for the 1/- ones heat of oven about 380 dont open the oven door for the first ten minutes they are in or they may [underlined] Blister [/underlined] dont use damp cornflour & dont use anything else in flour & no [underlined] powder [/underlined] dont use anything else in fat only Butter & get all the water out of it before creaming up [underlined] use [/underlined] only tins wash Centre peice through well dust the tops with icing sugar after they [underlined] are baked [/underlined] the well creaming up & beating up is one of the Cheif things in this [underlined] mixing[/underlined]
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