A Plain Currant Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 1/2 lb. dripping or butter
• 1/2 lb. currants or sultana raisins
• 1 egg
• About 1 pint milk
• 6 oz. sugar
• 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• 1/2 grated nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful tartaric acid

Method

1. 1

   Mix the flour, sugar, dripping, and currants well together.

2. 2

   Warm the milk, pour it on to the soda and tartaric acid, stir until they effervesce, and mix quickly with the egg and dry ingredients.

3. 3

   Turn at once into a greased tin, and bake for about an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda. 1 egg. Warm the treacle and water. Mix all the dry ingredients in a basin, and rub the dripping well amongst them. Beat CURRANT — OAT — SHREWSBURY CAKES. 129 the egg; add it with the wator and treacle to form a soft dough. Bake in a slow oven for about an hour. Note. — Buttermilk may be substituted for the egg and water ; in this case warm the treacle alone. A PLAIN CURRANT CAKE. 1 lb. flour. \ lb. dripping' or butter. J lb. currants or sultana raisins. 1 egg. About i pint milk. 6 oz. sugar. 1 teaspoonful carbonate of h grated nutmeg. soda. -1 teaspoonful tartaric acid

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