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A recipe passed down because it was worth passing down
A recipe passed down because it was worth passing down
Ingredients
Ingredients
270g self raising flour
4 eggs
180g butter
2 Tbsp milk
150g caster sugar
Strawberry jam
Whipped cream
Method
Method
Cream butter and sugar (see video below), add eggs one at a time and mix well.
Fold in flour with the milk. Fill patty pans, makes about 30.
Cook 15 minutes at 200”. Cool.
Cut out centers, put in a little jam and cream, replace halved centers and dust with icing sugar.
Tips | Optional Notes
Tips | Optional Notes
Put half of this mixture into patty pans, and the remainder of mixture add some cocoa and a little extra milk for chocolate butterfly cakes. Mix well then into patty pans.
Alternatively, marble the cakes, by adding plain batter into a patty pan and then top with the chocolate batter.
This recipe is part of Hestia by Theophora, a domestic archive of family recipes and household rituals.
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