Rich Plum Cake

Ingredients

• three quarters of a pound of flour
• 4 ozs. of castor sugar
• 2 ozs. of raisins or sultanas
• one tea-spoonful of baking powder
• 2 ozs. of currants
• 5 ozs. of butter
• two eggs
• 1 oz. of mixed peel
• half a gill of milk
• one tea-spoonful of ground cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Clean fruit and cut peel, sift flour and mix with baking powder, fruit, peel, and cinnamon.

2. 2

   Cream sugar and butter, add yolks of eggs, mix in dry ingredients and milk, fold in beaten egg whites.

3. 3

   Bake in a buttered 'Express' paper-bag for about 1.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The paper-bag cookery manual (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ne tea- spoonful of baking powder, salt, and milk to mix. Mix the flour and salt in a basin, rub in lightly the butter, add the sugar and baking powder, and mix with enough milk to form a dough ; turn on to a floured board, make up into desired shapes, and brush over with sweetened milk ; place them in a buttered “Express” paper-bag, put it on a wire grid and bake in a fairly hot oven from 15 to 20 minutes. Rich Plum Cake. Take three quarters of a pound of flour, 4 ozs. of castor sugar, 2 ozs. of raisins or sultanas, one tea- spoonful of baking powder, 2 ozs. of currants, 5 ozs. of butter, two eggs, 1 oz. of mixed peel, half a gill of milk, one tea-spoonful of ground cinnamon

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