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Rich Plum Cake

From Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families, 1907

Do not open the oven door for the first half hour.

Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 89. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RICH PLUM CAKE. £ lb. flour. | lb. butter. 5- lb. currants. 5- lb. moist sugar. 5 lb. peel. 2 oz. whole almonds. £ teaspoonful carbonate of soda. I teaspoonful sal-volatile. 1 pinch salt. 1 gill warm milk. 2 eggs

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