Ingredients:7 oz butter
7 oz sugar
6 eggs, yolks and whites separated
8 oz self-raising flour
Juice from ½ orange (3 Tablespoons)
1 teaspoon vanilla, or grated rind of 1/2 orange
A little red food colouring (cochineal)
Method:
Cream butter and sugar till light. Add yolks of eggs, one at a time, beating well after addition of each egg.
Beat egg whites to a stiff froth. Fold egg white froth into mixture. Add flour, folding it in, and when mixture is
smooth, add orange juice and vanilla.
Pour half of the mixture into a square or round deep cake tin which has been lined and greased. Then add a little red food colouring to remaining mixture to make a pretty pink. Pour mixture on to that in the tin. Bake in moderately hot oven (375 degrees F) for about 1 hour or till cake leaves sides of pan.
When cool, cover cake with fudge frosting.
