Luncheon Cake

Ingredients

• Half an ounce candied peel
• Pinch of nutmeg
• Two eggs
• One teaspoonful of baking-powder
• About half a gill milk
• Six ounces flour
• Three ounces butter
• Four ounces sugar

Method

1. 1

   Sieve the flour and rub in the butter.

2. 2

   Clean the sultanas, shred the peel, and mix all the dry ingredients.

3. 3

   Beat the eggs, add the milk, mix with the dry ingredients, and beat well.

4. 4

   Turn into a prepared cake-tin, and bake in a steady oven for one and a half to two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plain cookery recipes (1908) by Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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