Friday, August 12, 2011

Marrow Cake

1 tablespoon butter
1 cup cooked mashed marrow
1/2 cup sugar
2 cups S.R. flour
vanilla essence
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 cup sultanas
1/2 cup milk
pinch salt

Method: Mix marrow, butter and sugar, add egg and essence, then flour and milk alternately. (Zucchini or Butternut can be used instead of marrow). Finally mix in nutmeg and sultanas.

Topping:
120g butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup plain flour
cinnamon to taste

Method: Melt the butter and add the sugar. Mix in cup of plain flour and cinnamon to taste. Sprinkle over cake. Bake in moderate hot oven 30-40 minutes.

Source: contributed by D. Barnes in The Princess Royal Cookbook compiled by a sub-committee of The Muscular Dystrophy Association of South Australia (Kent Town: Peacock Publications, 1984 reprint of 1981 first edition; ISBN 0909209502), p.82.
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