Gingerbread Cake

Ingredients

• a pound and a half of flour
• one pound of treacle
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• the same of ground ginger
• the same of ground cinnamon
• half a teaspoonful of allspice
• half an ounce of carraway seeds
• two ounces of sugar
• two ounces of orange-peel
• two eggs
• enough milk to make all into a stiff paste

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter and mix with treacle.

2. 2

   Add beaten eggs.

3. 3

   Combine dry ingredients and add liquid to form a stiff paste.

4. 4

   Line cake tins and bake for about an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tempting dishes for small incomes (1891) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Gingerbread Cake. Take a pound and a half of flour, one pound of treacle, a quarter of a pound of butter, one tea- spoonful of carbonate of soda, the same of ground TEMPTING DISHES. 71 ginger and of ground cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of allspice, and half an ounce of carraway seeds, two ounces of sugar and of orange-peel, two eggs, and enough milk to make all into a stiff paste

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