Christmas Currant Loaf

Ingredients

• Four pounds of flour
• half a pound of butter
• one pound of sugar
• one pound of Sultana raisins
• one pound of currants
• half an ounce of baking powder
• one pint and a half of new milk
• four eggs
• the grated rind of two lemons
• two ounces of candied lemon or orange
• half an ounce of German yeast
• mace
• cinnamon

Method

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   Rub the baking powder into the flour with half an ounce of salt; then rub in the butter; prepare the German yeast, adding to it the milk, just warm; strain it into the middle of the flour, stirring it a little; cover, and set it in a warm place to rise; when well risen, mix up all the ingredients together, beating well the eggs, and rolling the sugar; cut the candied orange in thin slices, and add the rind of the lemons, the mace, and cinnamon, powdered; set it again to rise for an hour, and bake in tins or earthenware baking-pans, warmed and buttered, in a moderately hot oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 14 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Currant Loaf. Four pounds of flour, half a pound of butter, one pound of sugar, one pound of Sultana raisins, one pound of currants, half an ounce of baking powder, one pint and a half of new milk, four eggs, the grated rind of two lemons, two ounces of candied 198 VEGETARIAN COOKERY. lemon oi orange, half an ounce of German yeast, mace, and cinnam-,-n. Kub the baking powder into the flour with half an ounce of salt ; then rub in the butter ; prepare the German yeast, adding to it the milk, just warm ; strain it into the middle of the flour, stirring it a little ; cover, and set it in a warm place to I’ise ; when well risen, mix up all the ingredients together, beating well the eggs, and rolling the sugar ; cut the candied orange in thin slices, and add the rind of thedemons, the mace, and cin- namon

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