French Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• Five cups of sugar
• three of butter
• two of milk
• ten of sifted flour
• six eggs
• three small nutmegs
• one teaspoonful of saleratus
• one pound of raisins
• one-third of a pound of citron

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, then add part of the flour, the milk and the beaten yolks of the eggs, then add the rest of the flour and the whites of the eggs; add the fruit as you get the cake ready for the oven; season to taste.

2. 2

   This will make four loaves.

3. 3

   Bake one hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from La cuisine creole (1885) by Lafcadio Hearn, page 62. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FBENOH LOAF CAKE. Five cups of sugar, three of butter, two of milk, ten of sifted flour, six eggs, three small nutmegs, one tea- spoonful of saleratus, one pound of raisins, and one- third of a pound of citron

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