Pork Cake

Ingredients

• one cup of fat pork
• one cup of stoned raisins
• a cup of treacle
• a half-teaspoonful of soda
• a tablespoonful of warm water
• one cup of milk
• four cups of sifted flour
• a tablespoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Chop pork fine, flour raisins.

2. 2

   Dissolve soda in warm water and mix with treacle, then add milk, flour, and pork.

3. 3

   Beat thoroughly, add raisins, and salt.

4. 4

   Mix and bake in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from National viands à la mode (1895) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pork Cake. (American) Chop fine one cup of fat pork ; take one cup of stoned raisins and flour them well. Put a cup of treacle into a bowl ; dissolve a half-teaspoonful of soda in a tablespoonful of warm water, add it to the treacle, then add one cup of milk, four cups of sifted flour, and the pork ; beat thoroughly ; add the raisins and a tablespoonful of salt

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