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Very Good Cheap Cake
From A year's cookery, 1880
Serves 3
Mix stiffly for a lighter cake. Small cakes need a brisk oven to rise.
Presented as published in 1880. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A year's cookery (1880) by Phillis Browne, page 188. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
very Good Cheap Cake may be made as follows : — Put a pound of flour into a bowl, with a pinch of salt and a dessert-spoonful of baking-powder. Ptub in four ounces of butter, dripping, or lard, the latter being the least desirable. A mixture of butter and dripping is to be pre¬ ferred. When the flour looks like fine oatmeal, and is quite free from lumps, add four ounces of moist sugar, half a pound of currants picked and dried, an ounce of candied peel chopped small, and a quarter of a nutmeg
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