Orange Cake
Oven, in the book's wordsA steady oven
Ingredients
Directions
Let the cake cool completely.
Split the cake in half.
Spread a layer of orange icing on the bottom half.
Replace the upper half of the cake.
Mask the entire cake with orange icing.
Decorate with royal icing.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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