Rock Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of flour
• three ounces of butter
• three ounces of sugar
• three ounces of sultana raisins
• two eggs
• one tea-spoonful of powdered ginger
• one half gill of milk
• two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Put the flour into a mixing-bowl, add the butter, and rub together.

2. 2

   Add sugar, ginger, and baking powder, and mix well.

3. 3

   Prepare the raisins by removing stems and adding them to the mixture.

4. 4

   Beat the eggs, add milk, and stir into the dry ingredients to form a stiff dough.

5. 5

   Grease a baking-tin, place rough pieces of dough on it, and bake for fifteen minutes in a very hot oven.

6. 6

   Serve when cool.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 138. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ROCK CAKE — YORKSHIRE TEA CAKES. 211 flour is being beaten in, sprinkle in from time to time the lemon-juice and the grated rind of lemon. Pour the batter without any delay into a baking-tin that has been greased with butter, and placing the tin in a moderate oven, let the cake bake therein for an hour and a half. Rock Cake.— One pound of flour, three ounces of butter, three ounces of sugar, three ounces of sultana raisins, two eggs, one tea-spoonful of powdered ginger, one half gill of milk, two tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder

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