Fancy Clip Cakes

Ingredients

• one and one-fourth pounds of sugar
• nine ounces of butter and lard
• seven eggs
• one pint of milk
• one-half of an ounce of ammonia
• two and one-fourth pounds of flour

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar, butter, and eggs, then add milk and ammonia.

2. 2

   Mix in flour, grease moulds, fill half, sprinkle with currants, and bake at 400 degrees.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Perfection in baking (1895) by Emil Braun, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fancy Clip Cakes. Cream together one and one-fourth pounds of sugar, nine ounces of butter and lard, seven eggs, and egg coloring; add one pint of milk with one-half of an ounce of ammonia, then two and one-fourth pounds of flour

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