Soda Cake
From Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book, 1898
Serves 4
If the quantities are not exact the cake fails.
Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 376. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Soda Cake. — {Family Recipe.) — Rub into one pound of flour one teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, six ounces of butter, six ounces of loaf sugar, six ounces of raisins, and three beaten eggs, leaving out one white. Mix it up into a stiff paste with nearly half a pint of lukewarm milk. Flavour it with lemon peel grated very fine
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