Soda Cake

Ingredients

• two pounds flour
• one half pound butter
• one quarter pound lard
• one pound sugar
• one and one-half pound currants
• one quarter pound lemon peel
• one lemon
• one tablespoonful of cinnamon
• four eggs
• one pint milk
• two teaspoonfuls carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Prepare a large cake-tin by dipping it in boiling water, drying it quickly, and lining it with greased paper.

2. 2

   Make the soda smooth.

3. 3

   In a large basin, rub together the butter, lard, and flour until crumb-like.

4. 4

   Add the currants, cinnamon, and soda, along with the lemon peel.

5. 5

   Beat the eggs in a smaller basin and add them to the mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SODA CAKE. 215 add by degrees the flour. Dip a cake-tin in boiling water, dry it quickly, and line it with a sheet of greased paper. Just before pouring the mixture into the tin, add to it the caraway seeds. Place the tin in rather a quick oven for fifteen minutes, then place over the top a sheet of paper, change the tin to a cooler part of the oven, and allow the cake to bake slowly for an hour longer. Snow Cake. — One pound potato flour, one half pound butter, one half pound powdered sugar, two eggs, one half tea-spoonful essence of vanilla. Place in a basin the butter, and with the back of a wooden spoon beat it to a cream. The sugar must then be added and the mixture well beaten with the spoon for five minutes. Break into a small basin the eggs, beat them till very light, and add to them the vanilla. Add now the eggs and vanilla to the mixture in the large basin, and stir all well together. Mix in now quickly and lightly the flour. Line a Yorkshire pudding-tin with a sheet of greased paper; pour in the mixture and spread it smoothly with a knife ; place the tin in a moderate oven and allow the cake to bake for three- quarters of an hour. Before taking the cake out of the tin allow it to cool a little, then cut it in small square pieces. Soda Cake. — Two pounds flour, one half pound butter, one quarter pound lard, one pound sugar, one and one-half pound currants, one quarter pound lemon peel, one lemon, one table-spoonful of cinnamon, four eggs, one pint milk, two tea-spoonfuls carbonate of sod

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