Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• J lb. butter
• 2 oz. brown sugar
• i lb. treacle
• 6 oz. raisins (either kind)
• 6 oz. currants
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda

Method

1. 1

   Put the butter and treacle into a bowl, just melt it, then add the soda and work or stir it about 5 minutes, or until it ferments like yeast.

2. 2

   Then add the other ingredients, mix well, put it into a cake-tin lined with greased paper, and bake about 3 hours in a rather slow oven, or until a skewer comes out quite clean.

3. 3

   Candied peel can be added as liked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS CAKE. Ingredients : — 1 lb. flour. J lb. butter. 2 oz. brown sugar. i lb. treacle. 6 oz. raisins (either kind). 6 oz. currants. 3 eggs. 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda

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