Light Luncheon Cake

Ingredients

• four ounces of butter
• a couple of pounds of flour
• four ounces of pounded sugar
• a large tablespoonful of solid well-washed yeast
• three-quarters of a pint of warm new milk
• a couple of well whisked eggs
• eight ounces more of pounded sugar
• half a grated nutmeg
• two to three ounces of candied citron thin

Method

1. 1

   Mix butter into flour to form crumbs, add sugar and salt.

2. 2

   Stir in yeast diluted in warm milk, let rise.

3. 3

   Add eggs, more sugar, nutmeg, and citron.

4. 4

   Let rise again, then bake in a buttered pan for about 70 minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 482. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LIGHT LUNCnEON-CAKE AND DROWN BRACK. Break down four ounces of butter into a couple of pounds of flour, and work it quite into crumbs, but handle it very lightly ; mix in a Chap. xxvi. ] CAKE S0 555 pinch of salt and four ounces of pounded sugar ; hollow the centre, and stir into it a large tablespoonful of solid well-washed yeast (or an ounce of German yeast which will ferment more quickly), diluted with three-quarters of a pint of warm new milk ; when sufficient of the surrounding flour is mixed with it to form a thick batter strew more flour on the top, lay a cloth once or twice folded together over the pan, and let it remain until the leaven has become very light : this it will generally be in an hour and a quarter, or, at the utmost, in an hour and a half. The fermentation may be quickened by in- creasing the proportion of yeast, but this is better avoided, as it may chance to render the cake bitter ; additional time, however, must always be allowed for it to rise when but a small quantity is used. When the leaven is at the proper height, add to a couple of well wrhisked eggs, sufficient nearly -boiling milk to warm them, and mix them with the other ingredients ; then beat well into the cake by degrees, eight ounces more of pounded sugar, and half a grated nut- meg ; cut from two to three ounces of candied citron thin

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