Plum Cake (2)

Ingredients

• lb. Flour
• 1 lb. Currants
• i lb. Sultanas
• li lb. Sugar
• li lb. Butter
• ^ lb. Candied Peel
• 6 oz. Almonds
• 7 Eggs
• lit teaspoonfula Baking PoAvder
• J pint Milk

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream; add the sugar; beat until it drops from the spoon; add the eggs very gradually; then add the currants and sultanas cleaned, candied peel chopped finely, and almonds pounded.

2. 2

   Then add the flour and baking powder (mixed) and the milk alternately.

3. 3

   Pour into greased tin lined with paper, and bake in a rather slow oven till a skewer thrust in comes out clean and dry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Tried favourites cookery book (1909) by Kirk, E. W. Mrs, page 157. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Cake (2). lb. Flour, 1 lb. Currants, i lb. Sultanas, li lb. Sugar, li lb. Butter, ^ lb. Candied Peel, 6 oz. Almonds, 7 Eggs, lit teaspoonfula Baking PoAvder, J pint Milk

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