Excellent Yeast Cake

Ingredients

• 61b. of flour
• l|lb. of butter and beef dripping
• 2£lb. of currants and raisins
• 141b. of brown sugar
• lib. of candied peel sliced very finely
• a teaspoonful of mixed spice
• one of ginger
• one of salt
• four eggs
• a quart of luke-warm milk
• 2oz. best German yeast

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and dry ingredients into the flour; make a well in the centre, in which set a sponge of the yeast and a gill of the milk.

2. 2

   When the sponge has risen, make up the cake with the rest of the milk and the eggs, and knead the dough vigorously for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Set it to rise in a warm place for three or four hours, then make up into loaves and bake in buttered tins.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Bread, cakes, and biscuits (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

four eggs and a wineglassful of rum ; if preferred, a spoonful of essence of vanilla or of lemon, and two or three more whites of egg, may be used instead of the rum. Roll this out, dusting the board and the rolling pin with rice flour or crime de riz. Place this mixture on the cake, pressing it into position, and, when set and firm, cover it and the sides of the cake thickly with royal icing, made thus: Put the whites of four or five eggs to lib. 4oz. of finest icing sugar and a little lemon juice, and work it to a smooth thick paste with a clean wooden spoon (it will take fully twenty minutes to mix), then spread it evenly over the cake with a palette knife dipped occasionally into cold water. Ornament to taste with flowers, figures, &c. Cake, An Excellent Yeast. — (To be made a fortnight before required for use, and kept wrapped in paper in air- tight tins.) 61b. of flour, l|lb. of butter and beef dripping, 2£lb. of currants and raisins, or stoned raisins alone, 141b. of brown sugar, lib. of candied peel sliced very finely, a few carraway seeds, two nutmegs grated, a teaspoonful of mixed spice, one of ginger, and one of salt, four eggs, a quart of luke- warm milk, and 2oz. best German yeast

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