Queen Cakes

Name: Queen Cakes
Ingredients: half a pound of butter; a pound of flour; half a pound of castor sugar; half a pound of currants; a teacupful of cream; one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda; flavouring to taste

From The book of plain cooking, 1904

Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The book of plain cooking (1904) by Ethel Archer, page 49. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Queen Cakes Beat half a pound of butter to a cream, and i6o PLAIN COOKING dredge in a pound of flour ; add half a pound of castor sugar and half a pound of currants, and mix them with a teacupful of cream and flavouring to taste, and one teaspoonful of car- bonate of soda

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