Irish Tea Cake

Ingredients

• 2 Teacupfuls Flour
• 1 Teacupful Sugar
• | Teacupful Butter
• 2 Eggs
• J Teacupful Milk
• | Teaspoonful Soda
• 1 Teaspoonful Cream of Tartar
• Essence, Vanilla or Almond

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter and sugar to a cream; dissolve soda in a tablespoonful of milk; beat up yolks of eggs in the rest of the milk; add gradually to the butter and sugar, sifting in the flour at the same time; add soda, essence, and whites beaten to a stiff froth; lastly, add the cream of tartar.

2. 2

   Put into buttered tin, and bake in a quick oven for an hour and a quarter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Evans' recipe cookery book (1900), page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

IRISH TEA CAKE. Ingredients. 2 Teacupfuls Flour. 1 Teacupful Sugar. J Teacupful Butter. Essence, Vanilla or Almond. 2 Eggs. Method. Beat butter and sugar to a cream ; dissolve soda in a tablespoon¬ ful of milk ; beat up yolks of eggs in the rest of the milk ; add gradually to the butter and sugar, sifting in the flour at the same time ; add soda, essence, and whites beaten to a stiff froth ; lastly, add the: cream of tartar. Put into buttered tin, and bake in a quick oven for an hour and a quarter. J Teacupful Milk. | Teaspoonful Soda. 1 Teaspoonful Cream of Tartar

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