Soda Cake No. 1

Ingredients

• a quarter of a pound of butter
• a pound of flour
• a pinch of salt
• a quarter of a pound of stoned raisins
• half a pound of powdered sugar
• a quarter of a grated nutmeg
• a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda
• a tea-cupful of warm milk
• three fresh eggs

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter into the flour, add salt, raisins, sugar, and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Mix dry ingredients.

3. 3

   Dissolve soda in warm milk, whisk eggs, and mix all together.

4. 4

   Butter tins, line with oiled paper, pour in mixture, and bake in a well-heated oven.

5. 5

   Bake for about 1 hour and 45 minutes for a large cake or 1 hour for small cakes.

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.

a pound of flour. Knead the dough till it is smooth and light, put it into a tin, and bake the loaf in a brisk oven. Some- times sour milk or buttermilk is used instead of sweet milk, and then a smaller proportion of tartaric acid is required. Time to bake, about an hour. Probable cost, 3d. for a loaf this size. Soda Bread (another vfny).—See Bread, Soda. Soda Cake. — No. l. Rub a quarter of a pound of butter into a pound of flour; then add a pinch of salt, a quarter of a pound of stoned raisins, or 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 egg

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