Cake with Currants and Orange Peel

Ingredients

• 3 teacupfuls of flour
• 3oz. of butter
• 1 teacupful of sugar
• £ teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda
• 1 saltspoonful of salt
• 2 teacupfuls of washed and dried currants
• loz. of candied orange-peel
• two eggs
• a teacupful of butter-milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, butter, and sugar in a bowl.

2. 2

   Add chopped candied orange peel and currants.

3. 3

   Crush bicarbonate of soda and mix with salt.

4. 4

   Beat eggs and mix with buttermilk.

5. 5

   Combine all ingredients, pour into a prepared cake tin, and bake in a moderately hot oven for an hour and a quarter.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two eggs with | pint of milk, and mix the Cake. Bake about one-hour-and-a-quarter in a moderate oveu. (7) Mix together in a large bowl 3 teacupfuls of flour, 3oz. of butter, and 1 teacupful of sugar ; rub well together with the hand, cut loz. of candied orange-peel into small pieces and add it together with 2 teacupfuls of washed and dried currants. Put £ teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda on a plate, and with the back of a spoon crush out all the lumps and rub it quite smooth ; add this with 1 saltspoonful of salt to the other ingredients in the basin, and mix it in. Beat up two eggs and mix with them a teacupful of butter- mil

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