This recipe requires very few ingredients – you can generally find most of them in your store cupboard. It’s also very easy to make. It’s a very old fashioned cake that you can imagine having in a seaside teashop. Its about time it came back into fashion!
I got this recipe from Nigella Lawson’s How To Be A Domestic Goddess. She calls it “My Mother-in-Law’s Madeira Cake” but as this isn’t my mother-in-law I’ve called it simply Madeira Cake!
Add an egg at a time with just under a tablespoon of flour and beat in well.
This particular grater is good for grating cheese, lemon and orange zest etc. Very robust and easy to clean.