Somerset Cider Cake
Source of Recipe
Grewen Chronicle
List of Ingredients
4oz soft brown sugar
4oz butter
2 eggs (not straight from the fridge but at room temperature)
8oz plain flour
½ a nutmeg grated
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
8floz dry cider
Recipe
In a large basin cream the sugar and butter together using a wooden spoon until the mixture is light in colour and fluffy in texture. Break the eggs into a separate basin and beat them. Beat the eggs into the sugar and butter mix. Sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda and nutmeg together and fold into the butter and sugar mix. Slowly stir in the cider. Bake in a well greased 7 inch tin at 190 degrees Centigrade for 1-1 and a half hours.