Plum Cake

Ingredients

• 1^ lb. flour
• 1 lb. butter
• 1 lb. sugar
• 4 oz. cherries
• 2 oz. walnuts
• 2 oz. preserved ginger
• ^ lb. sultanas
• 1 lb. currants
• 2 oz. peel
• 2 oz. almonds
• 8 eggs
• Milk if necessary

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, and beat in eggs one by one with a little flour.

2. 2

   Add the cleaned fruit and the rest of the flour.

3. 3

   Have the mixture of a firm consistency.

4. 4

   Bake in a steady oven for four or five hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for high-class cookery (1912) by Edinburgh School of Cookery, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLUM CAKE. 1^ lb. flour. 1 lb. butter. 1 lb. sugar. 4 oz. cherries. 2 oz. walnuts. 2 oz. preserved ginger. ^ lb. sultanas. 1 lb. currants. 2 oz. peel. 2 oz. almonds. 8 eggs. Milk if necessary

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