Plum Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of butter
• one of sugar
• one of flour
• ten eggs
• one pound of currants
• half a pound of raisins
• one nutmeg grated

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, a glass of brandy and the nutmeg, then the flour alternately with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, last the fruit with two tablespoons of flour stirred through it.

2. 2

   Bake like pound-cake an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 110. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum-cake. I One pound of butter, one of sugar, one of flour, ten eggs, one pound of currants, half a pound of raisins, one nutmeg grated

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