Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
A Nice Plain Cake for Children
1.8kg (4lb) Dough
150ml (¼ pint) Warm Milk
110g (4oz) Moist Sugar (Soft Brown Sugar)
110g (4oz) Butter or Good Beef Dripping
½ Grated Nutmeg or 15g (½oz) Caraway Seeds
If you are not in the habit of making bread at home, procure the dough from the baker’s and as soon as it comes in, put it into a basin near the fire.
Cover the basin with a thick cloth and let the dough remain a little while to rise.
Cream the butter and warm the milk.
When the dough has risen, mix with it thoroughly all the above ingredients and knead the cake well for a few minutes.
Butter some cake tins, half fill them and stand them in a warm place, to allow the dough to rise again.
When the tins are three parts full, put the cakes into a good oven.
Bake them from 1¾ to 2 hours.
A few currants might be substituted for the caraway seeds when the flavour of the latter is disliked.
Time: 1¾ to 2 hours.
Seasonable at any time.
A NICE PLAIN CAKE FOR CHILDREN
1767. INGREDIENTS - 1 quartern of dough, 1/4 lb. of moist sugar, 1/4 lb. of butter or good beef dripping, 1/4 pint of warm milk, 1/2 grated nutmeg or 1/2 oz. of caraway seeds.
Mode - If you are not in the habit of making bread at home, procure the dough from the baker’s, and, as soon as it comes in, put it into a basin near the fire; cover the basin with a thick cloth, and let the dough remain a little while to rise. In the mean time, beat the butter to a cream, and make the milk warm; and when the dough has risen, mix with it thoroughly all the above ingredients, and knead the cake well for a few minutes. Butter some cake-tins, half fill them, and stand them in a warm place, to allow the dough to rise again. When the tins are three parts full, put the cakes into a good oven, and bake them from 13/4 to 2 hours. A few currants might be substituted for the caraway seeds when the flavour of the latter is disliked.
Time - 1-3/4 to 2 hours.
Average cost, 1s. 2d.
Seasonable at any time.
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