Plum Cake, Plain, for Family use

Ingredients

• three pounds of best flour
• a dessert-spoonful of salt
• an ounce of German yeast
• half a pint of lukewarm water
• half a pound of butter, lard, or good beef dripping
• half a pint of hot milk
• half a pound of brown sugar
• half a pound of stoned and chopped raisins
• three quarters of a pound of washed and dried currants
• a beaten egg or two may be added or not
• a grated nutmeg or half an ounce of powdered allspice

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour with salt, make a hole, and add yeast moistened with water.

2. 2

   Stir in surrounding flour to make a batter, cover, and let rise.

3. 3

   Cut up butter, dissolve in hot milk, add cold milk to make warm.

4. 4

   Add eggs, nutmeg, and sugar, knead well, let rise again, then add raisins and currants.

5. 5

   Bake in well-greased tins.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1245. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Cake, Plain, for Family use. — Take three pounds of best flour, and mix with it a dessert-spoonful of salt. Make a hole in the centre, and pour in an ounce of German yeast, which has been gradually and perfectly moistened and blended with half a pint of lukewaim water. Stir to this as much of the surrounding flour as will make a batter, then throw a cloth over the bowl, and put it near the fire for about an hour. When the yeast has risen to the top of the flour, cut up half a pound of butter, lard, or good beef dripping. Dissolve this in half a pint of hot milk, and add as much cold milk as will make PLU (587) PLTJ it new-milk-warm. A beaten egg or two may be added or not, and a grated nutmeg, or half an oimce of powdei-ed allspice. Put in half a pound of brown sugar, and knead all weU together, adding a little more milk if necessary. Cover it again, and set it to rise for about an hour, until it is very light, then add half a poimd of stoned and chopped raisins, and three quarters of a pound of washed and diied cur- rant

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