Soda Cake

Ingredients

• 0.5 lb. flour
• 1 lb. currants
• 1 lb. sultanas
• 1 lb. brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 oz. butter
• 2 oz. dripping
• 2 oz. candied peel
• 0.5 teaspoonful carbonate of soda
• A little milk
• 1 teaspoonful nutmeg

Method

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   Pass the flour through a sieve, rub into it the butter and dripping, add all the dry ingredients except the soda, which must be dissolved in a very little milk; beat the eggs, and add together with the milk to the mixture; pour at once into a mould lined with oiled paper; bake in a moderate oven 1.5 to 1.5 hours.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

i lb. sultanas A little milk A little grated lemon rind ^ Pass the flour through a wire sieve, rub into it lightly the h ' butter, add all the dry ingredients except the baking powder ; ' separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs, beat up the ^ yolks with a little milk, with this mix the flour, &c., rather stiffly and add the baking powder ; whip up the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir in lightly; pour into a mould ■p lined with well-oiled paper. Bake 1^ hours in a moderate oven. 126 No. 297. SODA CAKE. J lb. flour i lb. currants i lb. sultanas 1 lb. brown sugar 2 eggs 2 oz. butter 2 oz. dripping 2 oz. candied peel ^ teaspoonful carbonate of soda A little milk i teaspoonful nutmeg

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