Vinegar Cake

Ingredients

• 6 ozs. butter
• 6 ozs. ground loaf sugar
• 4 eggs
• I cupful of milk
• t lb. flour
• 1 large half-teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
• 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar
• I lb. sultanas (or mixed peel if preferred)

Method

1. 1

   Beat to a cream the butter, add the sugar and beat for a short time, drop in the eggs one by one, beating well all the time.

2. 2

   Mix together the milk and carbonate of soda and vinegar, pour this into the other mixture and stir thoroughly, then add the flour gradually, next the sultanas or peel, and mix well together.

3. 3

   Butter a tin well, and bake for 1.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The St. Mungo cookery book (1904) by Jean Lambie, page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VINEGAR CAKE. 6 ozs. butter. 6 ozs. ground loaf sugar. 4 eggs. I cupful of milk, t lb. flour. 1 large half-teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. 2 tablespoonfuls vinegar. I lb. sultanas (or mixed peel if preferred)

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