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Show Empress' Cake. Have ready six ounces of butter and tho samo of caster sugar, threo eggs, nine o-.v.ces of flour, half tcaspoonful of baking powder, grated rind of lemon and four ounces of glace cherries cher-ries cut into halves. Lino a cako tin with buttered paper. Cream together tho butter and sugar. Well whisk tho eggs. Slovo together tho flour and baking powder, and add the lemon rind to It. Next add alternately somo flour and sgg to tho butter and sugar till all are mixed in. Pour half of tho mlxturo into tho tin, then sprinkle In a layer of the cherries, cut in halves. Next add tho rest of tho mixture. Bake first In a quick oven, then in a cooler ono for about three-quarters of an hour. |