My Mother-In-Laws Madeira Cake

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   Preheat the oven to 350F.

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   Cream the butter and 3/4 cup sugar, and add the lemon zest.

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   Add the eggs one at a time with a tablespoon of the flour for each.

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   Then gently mix in the rest of the flour and, finally, the lemon juice.

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   Pour batter into prepared pan.

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   Sprinkle with sugar (about 2 tablespoons should do it) as it goes into the oven, and bake for 1 hour or until a cake tester comes out clean.

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   Remove to a wire rack, and let cool in the pan before turning out.

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   VARIATION

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   I love a good old-fashioned seed cake; if you do too, add a couple of teaspoons of caraway to this batter.

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    For a lemon poppyseed cake, add the juice of another half lemon and a tablespoon or two of poppyseeds.

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    And I once came across an expensive but tempting curiosity: tiny dried strawberries.

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    I upped the liquid to the juice of 2 lemons and folded in about a cup of the strawberries.

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    It was a wholly successful experiment.

* Per serving · 4 servings · Values may vary.

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