Soda Cakes, Economical No. 1

Ingredients

• six ounces of good beef dripping
• a pound of flour
• a pinch of salt
• a tea-spoonful of mixed spice
• a table-spoonful of caraway seeds
• six ounces of moist sugar
• a tea-spoonful of vinegar
• half a pint of milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub dripping into flour, add salt, spice, caraway seeds, and sugar.

2. 2

   Mix dry ingredients, then add vinegar and milk.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1830. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soda Cakes, Economical. — No. i. I Rub six ounces of good beef dripping into a j pound of flour; add a pinch of salt, a tea-spoon- ' ful of mixed spice, a table-spoonful of caraway, seeds, or a table-spoonful of picked and cb-ied currants, and six ounces of moist sugar. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Add a tea- spoonful of \'inegar and half a pint of milk. Bake in a moderate oven. Probable cost, 4d. per pound. No. 2. Rub eight ounces of good beef dripping into two pounds of flour; add t a salt-spoonful of salt, six table- spoonfuls of j sugar, six ounces of picked and dried currants, a little niitmeg or spice, tliree eggs, and a pint of lukewai-m milk, in which a tea-spoonful of I carbonate of soda has been dissolved. Mix ) thoroughly, and bake in a moderate oven. ] Time to bake, one hour or more, according to the size of the cakes. Probable cost, 6d. per pound. Soda Cakes (another way). — Take six ounces of butter, and .mix with it one pound of flnur; work it into small crumbs. Mix with this half a pound of sugar, half a pint of boiling SOD ( 889 ) SOL milk, three eggs, a little grated nutmeg, and eight ounces of currants. Beat the whole well and lightly together ; then strew over it a very- small tea-spoonful of finely-powdered carbon- ate of soda. Beat the cake again for three or four minutes, and then bake it from one hour to an hour and a half. Soda Cream {sec Cream, Soda). Soda Scones. — Make a stiif paste with a pound of flour

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