Plum Cake made with Soda

Ingredients

• a pound of flour
• a quarter of a pound of butter
• half a pound of sugar
• half a pound of washed and dried currants
• two ounces of candied peel cut into shreds
• a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda
• milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add salt, sugar, currants, and candied peel.

2. 2

   Mix into a paste with milk.

3. 3

   Dissolve carbonate of soda in warm milk, stir into dough, and beat thoroughly.

4. 4

   Bake in a buttered tin for 1.5 to 2 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1244. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Cake made with Soda. — Rub a quarter of a jiound of butter into a pound of flour, add a pinch of salt, half a pound of sugar, half a pound of washed and dried currants, and two ounces of candied peel cut into shreds. Mix these ingredients thoroughly, then beat them into a jjaste with half a pint of milk. Dissolve a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda in two table- spoonfuls of warm milk. Stir this into the dough, and beat it again thoroughly. Put it into a buttered tin, and bake in a well-heated oven from an hour and a half to two hours. Sufficient for a good-sized cake. Probable cost, Is. 4d. Plum Cake made with Soda (another way).' — Beat a quarter of a pound of butter

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