Plain Currant Cake

Ingredients

• One pound flour
• one half pound powdered sugar
• one half pound currants
• one quarter pound butter
• one gill milk
• three eggs
• one small tea-spoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   In a basin, mix flour, sugar, and butter until crumbly.

2. 2

   Add washed and dried currants and soda.

3. 3

   In a separate bowl, beat eggs and add milk.

4. 4

   Grease a cake-tin, mix all ingredients quickly, pour into the tin, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plain Currant Cake.— One pound flour, one half pound powdered sugar, one half pound currants, one quarter pound butter, one gill milk, three eggs, one small tea-spoonful soda

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