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# Melting Moments · Rampant Scotland

Recipes

# Melting Moments

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*Traditional Scottish Recipes*
 *- Melting Moments*

*Here is a fancy cake which would have been eaten at many an afternoon tea.*

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## Ingredients

- 4oz cornflour
- 3oz butter
- 2oz caster sugar
- One egg
- Level teaspoon baking powder
- Teaspoon grated lemon rind
- Icing sugar

## Method

Cream the butter (margarine will do) and sugar until light and fluffy and add the lemon rind. Sieve the cornflour and baking powder together. Break the egg into a bowl and beat with a fork. Add a small amount (about a tablespoon) of egg and a similar amount of cornflour alternately to the creamed butter and sugar, beating well between each addition. Place about a dozen paper cake cases in a baking tin and add a teaspoonful of mixture to each case (use the back of another spoon to push it off). Place in a pre-heated oven at 375F/180C/Gas mark 4 and bake 10 minutes until firm and golden (don't let them get beyond a golden colour). Allow the cakes to cool on a rack and then add a dusting of the icing sugar.

## Source

From Rampant Scotland, restored from the page as it stood on 15 March 2025. [Original page](https://web.archive.org/web/20250315084353/http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_melting.htm).

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