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Lemon Madeira Layer Cake

This recipe is based on a Madeira cake for which there are two secrets to success:

Use free range or organic eggs whose yolks will contribute a beautiful yellow to the cake.
Cover it while baking and cooling

Serves 10-12

Ingredients
175g unsalted butter
175g golden caster sugar (or standard caster sugar)
195g flour
3 free range eggs
50 mls milk
grated rind of 1 …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917