Bribe Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. Flour
• X lb- Butter
• 1 gill Rum
• 1 gill Treacle
• X lb. Sugar
• iX lbs. Currants
• X lb. chopped Sultanas
• X lb- mixed Peel
• some grated Nutmeg
• X lb- ground Almonds
• 7 Eggs

Method

1. 1

   Pass the flour and grated nutmeg through a sieve together, add the currants, sultanas, peel and almonds, also the sugar.

2. 2

   Then melt the butter and treacle in a stewpan, remove from the fire and add the rum.

3. 3

   Pour this into the basin, and well mix.

4. 4

   Lastly, beat in the eggs one at a time.

5. 5

   Bake in a moderate oven for 2 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Gas cookery (1885) by Helen Edden, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Bribe Cake. 1 lb. Flour, X lb- Butter, 1 gill Rum, 1 gill Treacle, X lb. Sugar, iX lbs. Currants, X lb. chopped Sultanas, X lb- mixed Peel, some grated Nutmeg, X lb- ground Almonds, 7 Eggs

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