American Cake

Ingredients

• A teacupful of melted butter
• five of flour
• one of treacle
• one of sugar
• one of cream
• four eggs
• one pound of currants
• half a pound of raisins
• two ounces of candied peel
• one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• the same of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Put the five teacupfuls of flour into a basin, add the currants, the chopped raisins, the candied peel, and sugar.

2. 2

   Beat the eggs, and add the cream to them, then the treacle, butter, carbonate of soda, and vinegar; stir this well into the dry ingredients, then put the mixture into a cake-tin lined with buttered paper, and bake in a moderate oven for two hours, or it may be put into two small tins and baked one hour.

3. 3

   This cake will keep well.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

AMERICAN CAKE. A teacupful of melted butter, five of flour, one of treacle, one of sugar, and one of cream, four eggs, one pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, stoned and chopped, two ounces of candied peel, one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and the same of vinegar

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