Spice Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb. flour
• 6 ozs. butter
• ½ lb. orange peel
• 1 oz. ground cloves
• 1 oz. ground cinnamon
• 1 oz. Jamaica pepper
• ½ lb. sugar
• 1 lb. currants
• 1½ teaspoonfuls soda
• Buttermilk

Method

1. 1

   Mix dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Whip butter to a cream, add to mixture.

3. 3

   Add sufficient buttermilk to make a thick batter.

4. 4

   Bake in hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SPICE CAKE. i lb. flour 6 ozs. butter £ lb. orange peel i oz. ground cloves i oz. ground cinnamon i oz. Jamaica pepper £ lb. sugar i lb. currants. i£ teaspoonfuls soda Buttermilk Mix dry ingredients. Whip butter to a cream, add to mixture. Add sufficient buttermilk to make a thick batter. Bake in hot oven. Note. — Sweet milk may be used, but buttermilk is better. Miss Bowie, Glasgow. SPONGE CAKE. 4 eggs I 7 ozs. sugar 6 ozs. flour (sifted) Break the eggs into a small bowl and boil the sugar in half a teacupful of water. Warm a large bowl very well and put the eggs into it, and beat them slightly and add the boiled sugar. Whisk briskly for 20 minutes, and then add gently the flour and a little flavouring. Butter and paper a small cake tin, pour the mixture in, and bake for half an hour. Miss B. Keddie, Kelvinside. SULTANA CAKE. 1 lb. of flour £ lb. of butter \ lb. of castor sugar £ lb. of Sultanas Grated rind of a lemon 4 ozs. of peel 2 ozs. almonds 5 eggs 1 gill ©f milk 1 teaspoonful of baking powder Cream the butter and sugar, sift in the flour, salt, and baking 166 powder ; add the eggs one at a time and the milk ; beat all well together for io minutes, add the fruit and grated lemon rind and mix. Butter and paper a tin, pour in the mixture, and bake in a moderate oven. Miss Watson, Motherwell. WHITE CAKE. i teacupful of butter teacupfuls of sugar 3 teacupfuls of flour 5 teacupful of milk i heaped teaspoonful of baking powder i teaspoonful of essence of lemon 4 eggs Beat butter and sugar to a cream, add the eggs well beaten and the milk, and mix well. Then add the flour mixed with the baking powder, and last of all the essence. Bake in a moderate oven for ij hours. Cherry Cake. Same as white cake, with a cupful of preserved cherries, cut in halves, added. Ginger Cake. Same as white cake, with a cupful of preserved ginger added. Miss Kershaw. WHITE CAKE, J lb. flour

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