Soda Cake

Ingredients

• Half a pound of butter.
• Half a pound of castor sugar.
• Half a pound of currants or sultanas.
• A small quantity of mixed spice.
• Two ounces of candied peel.
• One pound of flour.
• A cup of warm milk.
• Three eggs.
• One teaspoonful of carbonate of soda.

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together with a wooden spoon until it is quite white; then work in by degrees the eggs, flour, and milk with the soda dissolved in it, beating it well all the time; add the spice, candied peel, and sultanas, and mix all together thoroughly.

2. 2

   Put it into a greased and papered cake tin, and bake in a moderate oven for two hours and a quarter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SODA CAKE Ingredients Half a pound of butter. One teaspoonful of carbonate of Half a pound of castor sugar. soda. Half a pound of currants or A small quantity of mixed spice. sultanas. Two ounces of candied peel. One pound of flour. A cup of warm milk. Three eggs.

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