See queen cake on Wiktionary
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"text": "1725, Robert Smith, Court Cookery, Queen's cakes, p188 - \"Take a Pound of dry'd Flower, a Pound of refined Sugar sifted, and a Pound of Currans washed, picked, and rubbed clean, and a Pound of Butter washed very well, and rub it into the Flower and Sugar, with a little beaten Mace, and a little Orange-Flower Water; beat ten Eggs, but half the Whites, work it all well together with your Hands, and put in the Currants; sift over it double-refined Sugar, and put them immediately into a gentle Oven to bake.\""
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"text": "QUEEN CAKE. Beat one pound of butter to cream, with some rose-water, one pound of flour dried, one pound of sifted sugar, twelve eggs, beat all well together; add a few currants washed and dried; butter small pans of a size for the purpose, grate sugar over them; they are soon baked.",
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"ref": "1914, Angela Brazil, The Girls of St. Cyprian's, (Google online books)",
"text": "\"I'm sure my brains work better when they're lubricated with tea,\" declared Bess Harrison, tilting back her chair at a comfortable though rather dangerous angle, and accepting the queen-cake which Lottie Lowman offered her."
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