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Simnel Cake

From The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes, 1907

Serves 9

Miss Baxter.

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 The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes (1907) by King's College Hospital, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Simnel Cake. The following is a very good and original recipe : — lib. butter worked into a cream wun four eggs, ilb. moist sugar, lAlb. currants, ilb. sultanas, 2lbs. flour, 2 small teaspoonfuls of sal volatile, one of grated ginger, 2 of mixed spice, t of ground cinna- mon, 2ozs . candied lemon, 2ozs. citron cut up

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