Cake, Common

Ingredients

• two and a half pounds of flour
• half a pound of brown sugar
• a tea-cupful of good yeast
• half a pint of lukewarm milk
• half a pound of picked currants
• two teaspoonfuls of caraway-seeds
• half a pound of melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour and sugar, stir in yeast and milk.

2. 2

   Knead and let rise.

3. 3

   Add currants or caraway-seeds and melted butter, knead again, let rise, then put into tins and bake for about an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 284. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cake, Common. — Mix two and a half poimds of flour with half a pomid of brown sugar. ytir in a tea-cupful of good yeast and half a pint of lukewarm milk. Knead these well together, and set the dough near the fire to rise. SVhen it rises, add haK a pound of picked cuii-ants, or two tea-sjioonfuls of cara- wa j'-seeds, and half a pound of melted butter

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