Soda Cake (Another Way)

Ingredients

• half a pound of sweet butter
• a pound of flour
• a pinch of salt
• half a pound of picked and dried currants
• a quarter of a grated nutmeg
• three ounces of finely-shred candied peel
• two well-beaten eggs
• the third of a pint of lukewarm milk
• a small tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda

Method

1. 1

   Rub butter into flour, add salt, currants, nutmeg, and candied peel.

2. 2

   Dissolve soda in lukewarm milk, mix all ingredients well, and bake quickly after adding soda in a buttered tin in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1829. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

haK a pound of picked and dried currants, half a pound of powdered sugar, and a quarter of a grated nutmeg. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Dissolve a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda in a tea- cupful of warm milk. Whisk thi-ee fresh eggs, and mix them with the milk. Beat all well together for a few minutes. Butter the tins, and line them with oiled paper. Pour in the mixture, and bake the cakes in a well-heated, steady oven. If a richer cake is required, the quantity of butter should be increased. As a variety, a quarter of a pound of candied peel or one ounce of pounded sweet almonds may be substituted for the currants, but then a little more soda will be needed. It should be remem- bered that the cake should be put into the oven immediately after the soda is added, and that it should be thoroughly baked. When done enough, turn it out carefully, and let it rest in a slanting- position on the edge of a basin till cool. If liked, the batter can be sj^read half an inch deep in a shallow pan, then cut into squares when done enough. If this plan is adopted, the cake will be baked in twenty minutes. Time to bake, one large cake, one hour and three-quarters; two small cakes, one hour each. Probable cost, 8d. per pound. Soda Cake (another way). — Rub half a pound of sweet butter into a pound of flour . add a pinch of salt, half a pound of picked and dried cui-rants, a quarter of a grated nutmeg, three ounces of flnely-shred candied peel (lemon, orange, or citron), and two well-beaten eggs. Dissolve a small tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda in the third of a pint of lukewarm milk

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