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Soda Cake

From Vegetarian cookery, 1891

Serves 3

If caraway seeds be used instead of currants, quarter of an ounce would be the proper quantity, adding a little more sugar.

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 114. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soda Cake. One pound of flour, quarter of a pound of butter, quarter of a pound of sugar, half a pound of currants, three eggs, a large tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda, and a tea-cupful of milk

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