Soda Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of flour
• six ounces of butter or clarified dripping
• a pinch of salt
• a tea-spoonful of mixed spice
• a table-spoonful of caraway seeds or a table-spoonful of picked and dried currants
• six ounces of moist sugar
• a tea-spoonful of vinegar
• half a pint of milk
• a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add salt, spice, seeds or currants, and sugar.

2. 2

   Mix thoroughly, add vinegar and milk with dissolved soda.

3. 3

   Pour into a greased tin and bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 233. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soda Cake. — Bub six ounces of butter or clarified dripping into one pound of flour ; add a pinch of salt, a tea-spoonful of mixed spice, a table-spoonful of caraway seeds or a table-spoonful of picked and dried currants, and six ounces of moist sugar. Mix thoroughly ; add a tea-spoonful of vinegar, and half a pint of milk in which a tea¬ spoonful of carbonate of soda has been dissolved. Turn the mixture into a tin lined with greased paper, and bake in a moderate oven. A richer cake may be made by substituting eggs for a little of the milk. Seed Cake. — Follow the directions given for Sultana Cake (August 2nd), but substitute a table-spoonful of caraway seeds for the raisins. Good Soda Buns may be made as follows : — Bub six ounces of butter or clarified dripping into a pound of flour ; add six ounces of sugar and two ounces of candied peel chopped small. Dissolve a quarter of a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda

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