Plum Cakes

Ingredients

• Two pounds of flour
• one-half pound of sugar
• four eggs
• one-half pound of butter
• six spoonfuls of cream
• one-half pound of currants

Method

1. 1

   Mix the butter and sugar to a cream, first washing the butter is free of salt; add the eggs, well beaten; then the cream, a little warm; then the flour and currants, the latter well washed and dried; mix well and make into small cakes, or bake in very small round tin pans in a tolerably hot oven.

2. 2

   Frost them and put a sugar ornament on each.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 363. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLUM CAKES. Two pounds of flour, one-half pound of sugar, four eggs, one-half pound of butter, six spoonfuls of cream and one-half pound of currants

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