Plum Cake (another way)

Ingredients

• one pound of butter
• three well-beaten eggs
• two pounds of best flour
• one pound of currants
• one pound of sugar
• five heaped tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder
• a pinch of salt
• lukewarm milk

Method

1. 1

   Beat butter to cream, mix with eggs, flour, currants, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

2. 2

   Mix lightly with lukewarm milk.

3. 3

   Put into buttered tins and bake immediately for one or two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1243. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lukewarm milk. Stir all quickly with a knife, and when the dough is ready mould it into buns, place these on a buttered baking-tin, and bake in a brisk oven for a quarter of an hour or more. Probable cost, Is. 4d. Sufiicient for about two dozen bnns. Plum Cake. — Mix a pinch of salt and a dessert-spoonful of baking-powder with one pound of flour. Rub into this a quarter of a pound of good beef dripping, and add a quarter of a pound of sugar, and half a pound of picked and dried cuiTants, one ounce of finely minced lemon-peel, and half a nutmeg grated. Make the mixture into a light dough wdth new milk, pour it into a buttered tin, and bake imme- diately for about an horn-. Probable cost, lOd. Sufficient for a moderate-sized cake. Plum Cake {see Currant Cakes). Plum Cake (another way). — Beat one pound of butter to a cream, and mix with it three well-beaten eggs, two pounds of best flour, one pound of currants, one pound of sugar, five heaped tea-spoonfuls of baking- powder, and a pinch of salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.