Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• two of sugar
• the beaten yolks of five eggs
• one cupful of strong coffee
• three and a half cupfuls of flour
• two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder
• one level tea-spoonful of salt
• one cupful of seedless sultanas
• one of currants
• one spoonful of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks, coffee, flour, and baking powder.

2. 2

   Mix in spices and fruits.

3. 3

   Bake and ice with coffee icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Coffee Cake Cream together one cupful of butter and two of sugar, then add the beaten yolks of five eggs ; then gradually add one cupful of strong coffee, then three and a half cupfuls of flour and two tea-spoonfuls of baking powder. This mixture should be quite stiff. Add one level tea-spoonful of salt, the same each of ground cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and a CAKES, ETC. 20 1 little nutmeg. Then add one cupful of seedless sultanas and one of currants, plenty of thinly sliced citron, and one spoonful of brandy

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