Lunch Cake

Ingredients

• 8 ozs. plain flour
• 5 ozs. castor sugar
• 1 heaped teaspoonful baking powder
• 3 ozs. sultanas
• 2 ozs. mixed peel
• Pinch of salt
• 2 eggs
• 5 ozs. butter

Method

1. 1

   Sift the salt and baking powder.

2. 2

   Rub in the butter, add the sugar, and rub in for a minute.

3. 3

   Add the fruit.

4. 4

   Beat the eggs and mix with the flour to make a stiff dough.

5. 5

   Bake in a greased cake tin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cookery book (1940) by Gas Council (Great Britain), page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

r 1 heaped teaspoonful baking 4 ozs. sultanas. 3 powder. ~ Pinch of salt. 4 ozs. Currants. Meihod—Cream the butter and sugar in a warm basin till very soft. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a little flour with CAKES AND BREAD 61 the second. Mix in the fruit, and lastly sift in the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix lightly. Put into a greased cake tin (6-7 inches across) and bake. Gingerbread Number 3. Time 13 hours. Shelf ath. 12 ozs. flour. 1 flat teaspoonful bicarbonate 3 Ib. treacle or golden syrup. of soda. 3 Ib. lard. 2 eggs. + lb. brown sugar. 4 tablespoonsful milk. 2 teaspoonsful ginger. Method.—Melt together the sugar, lard and treacle. Sift the flour, soda and ginger into a basin. Add the melted treacle, etc., mixed with the beaten eggs. Mix to a batter consistency, adding milk if necessary. Bake in a greased meat tin, size Io inches by 8 inches. Gingerbread (plain) Heat at Number 5. Cook at Number 4. Time 2} hours. Shelf ath. 4 lb. flour. 1 gills milk. 2 ozs. lard. 1 flat teaspoonful bicarbonate + lb. brown sugar. of soda. 4 Ib. golden syrup. 1 heaped teaspoonful ginger. Method.—Sift together the flour, ginger and soda. Rub in the lard. Add the sugar, mix to a thick batter with the milk and golden syrup, beat well. Put into a greased 7-inch or 8-inch cake tin, having a lining of greased paper in the bottom of the tin, and bake. Lunch Cake Heat at Number 5. Cook at Number 4. Time 12 hours. Shelf 4th. 8 ozs. plain flour. 5 ozs. castor sugar. 1 heaped teaspoonful baking 3 ozs. sultanas. wder. 2 ozs. mixed peel. Pinch of salt. 2 eggs. 5 ozs. butter

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