Birthday Cake

Ingredients

• 4 lb. butter
• 4 lb. brown sugar
• 2 level teaspoons baking powder
• 6 oz. currants
• 6 oz. seeded raisins
• 6 oz. sultanas
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 oz. candied peel
• 3 eggs
• 1 pint milk

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add beaten eggs, then milk (stirring in gradually), add flour sifted with rising and salt.

2. 2

   Add fruit and mix all well together.

3. 3

   Put in tin lined bottom and sides with brown paper.

4. 4

   Bake 2 to 2.5 hours in a moderate oven (375 deg.).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Australian sunshine cookery book for every housewife (1920) by Dried Fruits Industry Throughout Australia. Joint Publicity Committee, Australian Dried Fruits Association, Western Australian Dried Fruits Board, Victorian Dried Fruits Board, New South Wales Dried Fruits Board, South Australian Dried Fruits Board, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lb. butter. 1 lb. ground rice. 1 lb. brown sugar. 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1 ib. sultanas. 1 teaspoon cinnamon. 1 lb. currants. 1 packet spice (mixed). 1 lb. raisins. 2 tablespoons caramel. 4 lb. candied peel. 8 eggs. + lb. almonds. Sift flour, baking powder, ground rice, cinnamon, spice. Cream butter and sugar; when thoroughly creamed add eggs, one at a time, and beat them in well; add fruit and flour alter- nately until all is used, and colour with caramel. Put into cake tin lined with paper, and bake 4 or 5 hours in a moderate oven (375 deg.). Birthday Cake. 4 |b. butter. 2 level teaspoons baking 4 lb. brown sugar. powder. cs eis, ueitew lato 4-6 oz. currants, seeded raisins, : sultanas. 1 teaspoon salt. 2 oz. candied peel. 3 eggs. i pint milk. Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add beaten eggs, then milk (stirring in gradually), add flour sifted with rising and salt. Add.fruit and mix all well together. Put in tin lined bottom and sides with brown paper. Bake 2 to 24 hours in a moderate oven (375 deg.). Good Fruit Cake. 1 lb. butter. 3 lb. chopped and_ seeded 1 lb. sugar. raisins. 9 eggs. 4 lb. sultanas. 3 lb. plain flour. + lb. mixed peel. 8 lb. self-raising flour. + lb. chopped almonds. 1 lb. currants. “SUNSHINE” BISCUITS: 100 varieties to choose from. (30) Cream butter and sugar thoroughly. Beat whites of eggs to a stiff froth and then drop in the yolks one by one. Add gradually to the creamed butter and sugar. Have fruit, peel, and blanched almonds mixed with the flour, and add gradually to the butter and eggs. Mix well, and bake in a moderate oven (375 deg.) for about 4 hours. May be cooked quicker for a shorter period, but does not make such a good cake. Plain Fruit Cake. 6 oz. butter. 6 oz. self-raising flour. 6 oz. sugar. 6 oz. sultanas

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