A Good Cheap Cake

Ingredients

• lbs. of flour
• i lb. of butter
• I lb. of currants
• J lb. of sugar
• I egg
• I teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• i pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly, then add warm milk with dissolved soda.

2. 2

   Bake in a moderate oven for about 1 hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The St. Mungo cookery book (1904) by Jean Lambie, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i lb. of butter, 8d. I pint of milk, id. 1 lb. of sugar, 2d 2 eggs, 2d. ^ lb of currants, 3d. 4 lb. of peel, 3d. Take a basin and put i pound of flour into it ; rub | a pound of butter into the flour ; well wash, pick, and dry the currants ; mix | a pound of pounded sugar with them, and a of a pound of mixed candied lemon and orange peel, also a teaspoonful of grated nutmeg ; beat 2 eggs well in | a pint of milk ; mix all the ingredients thoroughly together ; bake in a buttered tin in a moderate oven for i hour. Mrs Crawford, Melro.se. A GOOD CHEAP CAKE. lbs. of flour, i It), of butter. I lb. of currants. J lb. sugar. I egg. I teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, i pint of milk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.