Cider Cake

Ingredients

• Rub 1 lb. of butter
• into 1 lb. of sifted flour
• and a teaspoonful of powdered carbonate of ammonia
• with 1 lb. of moist sugar
• and a little powdered spice
• moisten the whole with warm Cider until it forms a stiff dough

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients to form a stiff dough, put into buttered baking-tins, and bake in a quick oven for half-an-hour or until the cakes turn easily in the tins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 358. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cider Cake. — (1) Rub Jib. of butter into 111b. of sifted flour and a teaspoonful of powdered carbonate of ammonia. Stir well together, with lib. of moist sugar and a little powdered spice, and moisten the whole with warm Cider until it forms a stiff dough

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