Soda Cake

Ingredients

• one pound flour
• six ounces butter
• six ounces moist sugar
• twelve ounces currants
• two eggs
• one half pint milk
• one tea-spoonful soda
• one half tea-spoonful tartaric acid

Method

1. 1

   Place in a basin the flour, sugar, and butter, and mix all together with the fingers until the mixture looks like bread crumb, add then the currants.

2. 2

   Place on a plate the soda and cream of tartar, and smooth out all the lumps with the point of a knife; add them to the flour and currants.

3. 3

   Beat in a separate basin the eggs, add the milk, stir well together; then mix well together the contents of both basins.

4. 4

   Line with greased paper a cake-tin, and pour in the mixture.

5. 5

   Place the tin in a moderate oven, and bake the cake for an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 145. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soda Cake. — One pound flour, six ounces butter, six ounces moist sugar, twelve ounces currants, two eggs, one half pint milk, one tea-spoonful soda, one half tea-spoonful tartaric acid

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