Sophie's Orange Cake (1894 Recipe) - Real Recipes from Mums

I wish everyone could taste this. Cooked in the Phillips Airfryer and the result was so moist.
I only used 1 orange rind when I made it.

Ingredients (makes 1 cake)

1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4 orange juice
2 orange rind grated
2 cups s/r flour
2 tbs boiling water
ICING
1 cup of icing sugar
1 dessert spoon of butter
enough orange juice to make a spreading consistency.

Method

Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add eggs, one at a , beating well between each addition.
Add in rotation, milk, orange juice, orange rind and flour. Beat well then add water and beat again.
Place in greased loaf tin or 20 cm round tin, bake in moderate oven until firm when tested.
I baked this in the Airfryer Set temp to 175deg time 22min so that it used the 2 minutes to heat up then turned it down to 165 for roughly 10 minutes.

Notes

You can find the full picture in the Phillips Airfryer reviews. This cake was from a lady who started her recipe book around 1894, sixty years later it was passed on to her daughter then to the daughters daughter in 1990 so it is a very old recipe.

36 Comments

- - ~Loui~ said
  - 10 Feb 2022
    2:47 am
Now I really need an air fryer

- - Ellen said
  - 14 Jan 2022
    10:14 am
Interesting to bake cakes in the airfryer, I haven’t tried that yet

- - mom103778 said
  - 04 Aug 2021
    3:54 pm
Wish I had an air fryer now, this Orange Cake looks so delicious. Wonder if I would get the same result in a normal oven?

- - mom418449 said
  - 11 Jun 2020
    10:34 am
Wow, I’ve never used an hairdryer, although i feel like i could like to own one one day for sure. This cake looks super easy to make, and super moist. I look forward to trying it, but in my own oven…

- - Some_Toss said
  - 23 Mar 2016
    10:17 pm
Golly! I’ve never seen a photograph of a cake look so moist! That’s incredible! Will definitely have to try it! I haven’t had proper orange cake since I was a kid! Thanks so much for sharing!

- - mom112217 said
  - 17 Dec 2015
    4:34 pm
It looks so lovely and moist,l want a slice now!

- - mom57808 said
  - 26 Jul 2015
    7:19 am
MMM SO MIOST JUST ADD A BIT OF CREAM YUM…

- - mom93821 said
  - 02 Jan 2015
    9:03 am
Thanks for sharing this recipe; looks good.
- mom93821 replied
  
  11 Jan 2017 , 6:16 am
  A delightful and most orange cake.
- - cloverstorm said
  - 10 Nov 2014
    10:42 pm
Looks like heaven, love orange cakes.

- - caramello said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    4:56 pm
looks great, thanks for sharing

- - scottie said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    8:50 am
I am looking forward to trying this

- - caramello said
  - 21 Jul 2014
    8:17 pm
looks delicious, thanks for sharing

- - rachkap said
  - 08 Jul 2014
    1:34 am
Looks so tasty and moist!
- tilly replied
  
  10 Jul 2014 , 9:53 am
  It is so moist and delicious, just looking at it makes me want to bake it again.
- - coppin85 said
  - 01 Jul 2014
    9:26 pm
i would really enjoy this right now

- - seachtheteach said
  - 11 Jun 2014
    8:40 am
Yum! This sounds delicious and thank you for sharing such a lovely recipe

- - philjeddah said
  - 10 Jun 2014
    6:04 am
Thankyou for sharing it looks lovely and moist

- - BellaB said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    11:51 pm
An old recipe… And a new way of cooking!

- - jadedbutjoyful said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    7:33 pm
i wish i couold taste it as well

- - dearest mom said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    3:47 pm
This looks so delicious and would love to make this.

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 08 Jun 2014
    9:01 am
That looks so delicously moist.