Sophie's Orange Cake (1894 Recipe)

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.

37 Comments

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

- - 3timesamum said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    1:35 pm
This looks great. Can’t wait to try it.

- - kymichelle said
  - 06 Jun 2014
    12:29 pm
Oh I wish i’d seen this earlier. Hubby and toddler son are making me a chocolate cake right now (my birthday tomorrow) This would have been lovely! (They chose chocolate because they like it 🙂
- tilly replied
  
  04 Jul 2014 , 10:38 am
  Hope you had a great Birthday.
- - eestigirl said
  - 05 Jun 2014
    1:14 pm
I love old recipes because they have wholesome ingredients and taste so flavoursome. I am really over substituting low fat for butter etc. Can’t wait to try this cake!

- - mcspenny said
  - 04 Jun 2014
    10:41 pm
This looks really tasty thanks. 🙂

- - catgrrl3 said
  - 04 Jun 2014
    5:21 pm
the airfryer looks like its the perfect accessory to a kitchen

this looks super moist

- - sisterhood27 said
  - 04 Jun 2014
    4:31 pm
The cake looks so moist and delicious to eat will definately give this one a go

- - mom57522 said
  - 04 Jun 2014
    3:13 pm
Love recipes that have been handed down. How lovely!

- - rachaelchara said
  - 04 Jun 2014
    11:05 am
Looks great and tasty. I can’t believe it was cooked in the Air fryer.

- - no1ladydj said
  - 03 Jun 2014
    11:56 pm
It sounds like a Coconut & Lemon Cake recipe that my Nanna always made. I don’t have an airfryer, but I’ve been told that I can cook cakes in my Turbo oven, so I’ll have to give it a try. Although I’m sure it would also work well in a normal oven.

- - memo said
  - 03 Jun 2014
    7:40 pm
this is a lovely moist cake

- - mums-info said
  - 03 Jun 2014
    6:54 pm
Yum I won’t some now please

- - curlytops said
  - 03 Jun 2014
    5:58 pm
that looks really nice and moist.

- - coppin85 said
  - 03 Jun 2014
    4:39 pm
wow! cooking cakes in the air fryer! want can’t that thing do? 🙂