Light Cake

Ingredients

• Take a pint of bread dough
• beat into it two eggs
• boil a small half teacup of milk
• a teacup of sugar
• and half an one of butter
• add half a teaspoon of soda
• a tablespoonful of sugar
• a piece of nutmeg
• half a pound of seeded raisins

Method

1. 1

   Knead all together into the dough, flatten it out in a square tin which you have buttered; put half a pound of seeded raisins in a bowl with a teaspoon of cinnamon, a tablespoonful of sugar and a piece of butter the size of a nutmeg; rub all together until the raisins are well covered, then stick them down through the dough, let it rise.

2. 2

   When light, cover the top with sugar and milk mixed to a paste, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Light Cake. Take a pint of bread dough, beat into it two eggs ; boil a amall half teacup of milk, stir in it while boiling a teacup of sugar and half an one of butter. When nearly cool, add half a teaspoon of soda and a little flour; knead all together into the dough, flatten it out in a square tin which you have buttered; put half a pound of 8e3ded raisins in a bowl with a teaspoon of 16 826 COOKEBT FROM EXPERIENCE. aumamon, a tablespoonfnl of sugar

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