The family recipe book

Our family loves food and cooking… loves everything about food and cooking, reading recipes, looking at cookery books, buying new utensils or just wanting to buy new utensils, making, baking, roasting, toasting, frying eating… Breakfast, lunch tea, dinner, supper, snacks and elevenses… We love it!

Several years ago as a Christmas present to my cousins we made a cookery book of our mum’s favourite recipes (maybe it’s time to do a book with our dads favourite recipes!) Our cousins are staying with us at the moment so it seemed an ideal time to make  cake, the youngest member doing the baking and me doing the washing up. We talked about lemon cake, a family favourite, but we have several different recipes; my recipe, my cousin’s, my aunty’s, my mum’s…

Carolyn’s recipe

• 4 oz margarine
• 6 oz self-raising flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 6 oz caster sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 tbsp milk
• 1 large lemon, grated zest and juice
• 4 oz caster sugar

1. beat all the ingredients except the lemon juice and 4 oz caster sugar together, pour into a greased, lined  7″ x 11″ tin
2. bake for 50-60 mins 140° – 160° C until risen and golden
3. pour lemon juice over the top while it is still hot and sprinkle with the 4 oz sugar; leave in the tin to cool

Monica’s recipe

• 4 oz margarine
• 4½ oz self-raising flour
• 4 oz caster sugar
• 2 eggs
•  1 dessert spoon of lemon curd
• 2½ oz granulated sugar
• juice of 1 large lemon

1. beat margarine,4 oz caster sugar and lemon curd together until creamy
2. add beaten egg and sifted flour alternately
3. Pour into a greased and lined 7″ x 11″ tin, bake until risen and golden
4. melt sugar and lemon juice in pan, but do not boil
5. pour over cake while it is still warm and cool in the tin