Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
A Nice Plum Cake
450g (1lb) Flour
285ml (½ pint) Milk
225g (8oz) Sugar
225g (8oz) Currants
110g (4oz) Butter
50g (2oz) Candied Lemon Peel
1 tsp Bicarbonate of Soda
Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, currants and sliced candied peel.
Cream the butter and mix all the ingredients together with the milk.
Stir the bicarbonate of soda into 2 tablespoonfuls of milk.
Add to the dough and beat well, until thoroughly mixed.
Put the dough into a buttered tin.
Bake the cake for 1½ to 2 hours.
Time: 1½ to 2 hours.
Seasonable at any time.
A NICE PLUM CAKE
1769. INGREDIENTS - 1 lb. of flour, 1/4 lb. of butter, 1/2 lb. of sugar, 1/2 lb. of currants, 2 oz. of candied lemon-peel, 1/2 pint of milk, 1 teaspoonful of ammonia or carbonate of soda.
Mode - Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, currants, and sliced candied peel; beat the butter to a cream, and mix all these ingredients together with the milk. Stir the ammonia into 2 tablespoonfuls of milk and add it to the dough, and beat the whole well, until everything is thoroughly mixed. Put the dough into a buttered tin, and bake the cake from 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
Time - 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
Average cost, 1s. 3d.
Seasonable at any time.
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