Plum Cake
From Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .., 1902
This is a fine, rich cake, easily made, and not expensive.
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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This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
PLUM CAKE. ' Hike a cake of two cups of batter, two caps of molasses, one cap of sweet milk, two eggs, well-beatea, one teaspoon- ful of powdered saleratua, dissolved with a little hot water, one teaspoonful of ground mace or nutmeg, one teaspoonful of ground allspice, a tablespoonful of cinnamon, and a gill Mother's Cook Book. 187 of brandy; stir in floor to make a batter as stiff as may be stirred easily with a spoon; beat it well until it is light, then add two pounds of raisins, stoned, and oat in two, two pounds of currants, picked, washed, and dried, and half a pound of citron, cat in slips
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