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A Oh-so Light Lemon Cake

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With the onset of winter in the south and spring in the north, adding lemons in some form to your diet is a good practice.

From the blog archives of Tidious Ted, an old blogger friend:

An amazing lemon cake made from an old recipe.

teapot and a slice of lemon cake

The cake is soft and light, somewhere between a sponge and madeira. Yet it has the fresh and delicious taste of lemon.

Lemon Cake Recipe

Ingredients

  • 150 g [5,3 oz] butter
  • 3 Eggs
  • 300 g [10,5 oz] sugar
  • Grated peel of one lemon
  • 2 dl [0,4 pint] milk
  • 300 g [10,5 oz] sifted flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder

Lemon Icing:

  • Icing Sugar
  • Lemon Juice

Method:

[1] Stir butter and sugar until airy and white.

[2] Add one egg at a time, then lemon peel and flour alternately with milk.

[3] Pour the batter into two small oblong cake moulds or one deep round cake* mould with a diameter of 24 cm / 9,5 in. Beware this makes a large cake!

[4] Bake at 150° C / 300° F for about  45 minutes.

[5] Spread the icing over a cooled cake before serving.

NB* I used a cupcake tray and a large Kugelhopf/Bundt Cake Mould.

The Original recipe from Tidious Ted’s Recipereminiscing blog an old blog now lost to the wordpress archives.