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PLUM CAKE

Name: PLUM CAKE
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: Beat i^ pounds butter; with i pound sugar; add beaten whites of 8 eggs; i}4 pounds flour; 2 pounds currants; 8 ounces each of chopped candied lemon peel; and citron; ^ ounce of mixed cinnamon and nutmeg; the zest of 2 oranges rubbed on 4 lumps of sugar

From With a saucepan over the sea, 1902

Serves 8

Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from With a saucepan over the sea (1902) by Adelaide Keen, page 57. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLUM CAKE. (England.) Beat i^ pounds butter with i pound sugar, add beaten whites of 8 eggs, i}4 pounds flour, 2 pounds currants, 8 ounces each of chopped candied lemon peel and citron, ^ ounce of mixed cinnamon and nutmeg, the zest of 2 oranges rubbed on 4 lumps of sugar

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