Plain Soda Cake

Name: Plain Soda Cake
Ingredients: 1 lb. flour; 4 lb. butter or clarified dripping; i lb. sugar; T lb. currants or sultanas; 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda; H gills milk, or more; Sliced candied peel to taste

From Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery, 1890

Presented as published in 1890. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cookery book and general axioms for plain cookery (1890) by E. Briggs, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN SODA CAKE. Ingredients : — 1 lb. flour. 4 lb. butter or clarified dripping, i lb. sugar. T lb. currants or sultanas. 1 teaspoonful carbonate soda. H gills milk, or more. Sliced candied peel to taste

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