Ingredients: 7oz butter, 9oz sugar, 6 eggs, 9 oz self raising flour or 8 osz flour sifted with 2 ts baking powder. Juice of 1/2 orange (three tbs), 1ts vanilla (or grated rind of 1/2 orange), a little cochineal.
Method:
Cream butter and sugar till light. Add yolks of eggs, one at a time, beating well after additon of each egg. When light add the egg whites which have been beaten to a stiff froth, foldling it in. Add flour, folding it in, and when mixture is smooth, add orange juice and vanilla. Pour half the mixture into a square or round deep cake tin which has been lined and greased. Then add a little cochineal to remaining mixture to make a pretty pink.(??) Pour mixture on to that in tin. Bake in moderately hot oven for about 1 hour or till cake leaves sides of pan. When cook cover cake with Fudge frosting.