Plum Cake

Ingredients

• 5 teacupfuls flour
• 1 teacupful melted butter
• 1 teacupful cream
• 1 teacupful treacle
• 1 teacupful moist sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ounce powdered ginger
• 1 pound raisins
• 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• 1 tablespoonful vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter without boiling.

2. 2

   Mix flour, sugar, ginger, and raisins.

3. 3

   Stir in butter, cream, treacle, and whisked eggs.

4. 4

   Dissolve soda in vinegar and add to the mixture.

5. 5

   Bake in a buttered mould or tin in a moderate oven for 1.5 to 2.5 hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from English and French cookery (1890) by Percy Lindley, page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Cake. — 5 teacupfuls flour, 1 teacupful melted butter, 1 tea- cupful cream, 1 teacupful treacle, 1 teacupful moist sugar, 2 eggs, 1 ounce powdered ginger, J pound raisins, 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 1 tablespoonful vinegar

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