Raised Cake

Ingredients

• 1 quart of milk
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1/2 cup yeast
• 2 cups sugar
• spice to taste
• 2 eggs
• enough flour to make quite a soft dough
• soda the size of a pea

Method

1. 1

   Mix milk, salt, yeast, sugar, and enough flour to make a soft dough at night.

2. 2

   In the morning, cream butter and add sugar, spice, and eggs.

3. 3

   Combine with the dough, add more flour, and mix in soda dissolved in boiling water.

4. 4

   Add raisins, currants, and citron.

5. 5

   Pour into cake tins, let rise, and bake for one hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Raised Cake. Jam. Tea. Raised Cake. — At night mix 1 quart of milk, scalded and cooled, I teaspoonful salt, ^ cup yeast, i cup sugar and enough flour to make quite a soft dough. In the morning cream i cup butter, add another cup of sugar {2 in all), r.pice to taste and 2 eggs. Add this mixture to the dough which has been well beaten with the hand. Add more flour, making it about as stiff as fruit cake. Before add- ing the flour put soda the size of apea

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