Sultana Cake

Ingredients

• 12 oz. flour
• 2 oz. candied peel
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 lb. butter
• 1 lb. castor sugar
• 1 lb. sultanas
• A little milk
• A little grated lemon rind

Method

1. 1

   Pass the flour through a wire sieve, rub into it lightly the butter, add all the dry ingredients except the baking powder; separate the yolks from the whites of the eggs, beat up the yolks with a little milk, with this mix the flour, rather stiffly and add the baking powder; whip up the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir in lightly; pour into a mould lined with well-oiled paper.

2. 2

   Bake 1.5 hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. castor sugar 5 oz. German yeast 2 tablespoonfuls brandy 10 oz. currants 3 eggs • IJ oz. citron l| oz. lemon peel teaspoonful cinnamon About i pint milk Rub the butter into the flour, add all the dry ingredients, warm the milk slightly, add to the yeast, also a teaspoonful 126 sugar ancm. ‘iTt set in a warm place to rise ; then beat up the eggs and adcl to ye^st ; make a hollow in the centre of the cake mixture and pour in the milk, &c., mix the whole and set in a warm place two hours to rise ; pour half the mixture into a mould lined well with buttered paper ; have some almond paste ready (page 129), made with about 6 oz.^faonds, pour this in the centre, then on the top pour the remainder of the cake mixture ; bake 2^ to 3 hours, reducing the heat of the oven after the cake has risen and slightly browned. When cold, make some more almond paste of lb. almonds, put a thin layer on the top of the cake ; then form the remainder into half-egg shapes ; brush the cake over with white* oj egg, place the egg-shapes of almonds all round the cake, -p^t all over with white of egg, dust with castor sugar ; set in a cool o''^n until slightly browned. Decorate with candied fruits. No. 296. SULTANA CAKE. .'•V 12 oz. flour 2 oz. candied peel ' 1 teaspoonful baking powder 3 eggs i lb. butter i lb. castor sugar i lb. sultanas A little milk A little grated lemon rind

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