Currant Cake

Ingredients

• 1 g cup butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• :» t. baking powder
• L* eggs
• 1 cup currants
• 1 e*^ yolk mixed with 1 T. flour
• 1 2 cup milk

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, eggs well beaten, sift flour and baking powder, add alternately with milk.

2. 2

   Add currants last.

3. 3

   Bake in individual tins or loaf.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Worcester domestic science school's one year course laboratory cook book (1914) by Worcester domestic science school, Worcester, Mass., page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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