Sweet Cake

Ingredients

• Half a pound of butter.
• One pound of flour.
• One pound of sultanas.
• Half an ounce of mixed spice.
• Fourteen ounces of brown sugar.
• Four eggs (well beaten).
• Half a pound of lemon peel.

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour on to a piece of paper, cut the peel up fine and pick the sultanas; cream the butter and sugar together with the hand or a wooden spoon for ten minutes, add the mixed spice, then the flour and eggs, gradually mixing them well in, then the fruit, and lastly the carbonate of soda.

2. 2

   Put the mixture into a tin lined with three or four thicknesses of buttered paper, and bake in a moderately slow oven for three and a half hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SWEET CAKE Ingredients Half a pound of butter. One teaspoonful of carbonate of One pound of flour. soda. One pound of sultanas. Half an ounce of mixed spice. Fourteen ounces of brown sugar. Four eggs (well beaten). Halt a pound of lemon peel.

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