English Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cupful butter
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• 2 cupfuls sugar
• 1 teaspoonful allspice
• 5 eggs
• 1 cupful black coffee
• 3^4 cupfuls flour
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 pound raisins
• 1 pound currants

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter with a spoon and stir in the sugar, beating thoroughly.

2. 2

   Then add the well beaten egg yolks.

3. 3

   Divide the flour into two parts and to one add the soda and to the other add the spices, raisins and currants.

4. 4

   Add these flour mixtures alternately with the coffee infusion.

5. 5

   Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites and bake in two loaves.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

English Cake 1 cupful butter 1 teaspoonful cinnamon 2 cupfuls sugar 1 teaspoonful allspice 5 eggs 1 teaspoonful cloves 1 cupful black coffee 3^ cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful soda 1 pound raisins 1 pound currants

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