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Good Soda Cake

Name: Good Soda Cake
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: half a pound of fresh butter; a pound of fine dry flour; half a pound of sifted sugar; a quarter of a pint of boiling milk; three well-whisked eggs; a very small teaspoonful of good carbonate of soda; eight ounces of currants

From Modern cookery, in all its branches, 1884

Serves 4

Resembles pound cake but is less expensive and more wholesome.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 483. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GOOD SODA CAKE. Break down half a pound * of fresh butter into a pound of fine * Six ounces would to many tastes be quite sufficient, and the less butter tho cake contains the better. CHAP. XXVI.] CAKES. 557 dry flour, and work it into very small crumbs ; mix well with these half a pound of sifted sugar, and pour to them first, a quarter of a pint of boiling milk, and next, three well- whisked eggs ; add some grated nutmeg, or fresh lemon-rind, and eight ounces of currants, cleaned and dried ; beat the whole well ana lightly together, then strew in a very small teaspoonful of good carbonate of soda

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