Little Plum Cakes

Ingredients

• One cup of sugar
• half a cup of butter
• three well-beaten eggs
• a teaspoonful of vanilla extract
• four cups of sifted flour
• one cup of raisins
• one of currants
• half of a teaspoonful of baking soda
• milk enough to make a stiff batter

Method

1. 1

   Beat sugar and butter to a smooth cream; add eggs, vanilla, flour, raisins, currants, and dissolved baking soda.

2. 2

   Mix in enough milk to make a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Drop batter on well-buttered tins and bake in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 200. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LITTLE PLUM CAKES. One cup of sugar and half a cup of butter beaten to a smooth cream; add three well-beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of vanilla extract, four cups of sifted flour, one cup of raisins and one of currants, half of a teaspoonful of baking soda dissolved in a little water, and milk enough to make a stiff batter

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