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English Tea Cake

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 4

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 363. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH TEA CAKE. Take a light bread dough, enough for a small loaf ; mix with it one tablespoonful of lard, one of sugar, one large spoonful of currants

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.