Elderberry Cake

Ingredients

• 6oz. of butter
• the same weight of brown sugar
• three well-whisked eggs
• a wineglassful of elderberry wine
• 12oz. of dried flour
• two teaspoonfuls of good baking powder
• 12oz. of rich raisins stoned and cut
• 4oz. of shred orange peel
• a teaspoonful of spice, cloves, and nutmeg mixed

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add eggs and elderberry wine, then mix in flour and baking powder.

2. 2

   Stir in raisins, orange peel, and spice mix.

3. 3

   Pour into a well-buttered cake tin and bake for 1.5 hours in a moderate oven.

4. 4

   Store in a close-fitting tin for a week before using.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

6oz. of butter and the same weight of brown sugar ; then add three well- whisked eggs and a wineglassful of elderberry wine. Give all a vigorous beating, then stir in rapidly 12oz. of dried flour, into which two teaspoonfuls of good baking powder have been sifted ; 12oz. of rich raisins stoned and cut, 4oz. of shred orange peel, a teaspoonful of spice, cloves, and nutmeg mixed

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