Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 2 eggs
• 0.5 lb. brown sugar
• 2 to 3 oz. butter
• 2 table-sps. syrup
• 2 table-sps. coffee essence
• 1 tea-sp. mixed spice
• 0.5 lb. currants
• 0.5 lb. sultanas
• 1 tea-sp. carbonate of soda
• 1 gill warm milk

Method

1. 1

   Sieve the flour and spice into a basin, and rub in the butter until free from lumps.

2. 2

   Then add the sugar, and the fruit carefully prepared.

3. 3

   Make a well in the centre, add the eggs well beaten, the syrup, coffee, and soda dissolved in the warm milk.

4. 4

   Stir together until thoroughly mixed, and then beat for a minute or two.

5. 5

   Bake in a tin lined with greased paper.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery for every household (1914) by Florence B. Jack, page 924. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. flour. 3 eggs. 4 lb. desiccated cocoa- nut. 1 tea-sp. baking powder. About 1 tea-cupful milk. Beat the butter to a cream, and mix in the sugar, carefully sieved. Add the cocoanut, and the eggs well beaten. Then sieve the flour with the baking powder, and mix these in to the other mixture gradually, adding enough milk to make the mixture just soft enough to drop from the spoon. (A cake made with milk should never be too moist.) When all is thoroughly beaten, pour the mixture into a lined cake tin and bake in a moderate oven until the cake is nicely risen and feels firm to the touch. Time to bake, 1J to 2 hours. Probable cost, Is. 8 d. 2774. Coffee Cake | lb. flour. 2 eggs. | lb. brown sugar. 2 to 3 oz. butter. 2 table-sps. syrup. 2 table-sps. coffee essence. 1 tea-sp. mixed spice. J lb. currants. | lb. sultanas. 1 tea-sp. carbonate of soda. 1 gill warm milk

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