Mrs Beetons Baking Recipes Revisited
A Nice Plain Cake
450g (1lb) Flour
235ml (8floz) Moist Sugar (Soft Brown Sugar)
235ml (8floz) Milk
225g (8oz) Currants
110g (4oz) Dripping
3 Eggs
25g (1oz) Caraway Seeds
1 tsp Borwick’s Baking Powder
Put the flour and baking powder into a basin and stir together.
Rub in the dripping, add the sugar, caraway seeds and currants.
Whisk the eggs with the milk.
Add the other ingredients and beat together very thoroughly, until well mixed.
Butter a tin, put in the cake.
Bake it for 1˝ to 2 hours.
Let the dripping be quite clean before using, to insure this, it is a good plan to clarify it.
Beef dripping is better than any other for cakes, etc., as mutton dripping frequently has a very unpleasant flavour, which would be imparted to the preparation.
Time: 1˝ to 2 hours.
Seasonable at any time.
A NICE PLAIN CAKE
1766. INGREDIENTS - 1 lb. of flour, 1 teaspoonful of Borwick’s baking-powder, 1/4 lb. of good dripping, 1 teacupful of moist sugar, 3 eggs, 1 breakfast-cupful of milk, 1 oz. of caraway seeds, 1/2 lb. of currants.
Mode - Put the flour and baking-powder into a basin; stir those together; then rub in the dripping, add the sugar, caraway seeds, and currants; whisk the eggs with the milk, and beat all together very thoroughly until the ingredients are well mixed. Butter a tin, put in the cake, and bake it from 11/2 to 2 hours. Let the dripping be quite clean before using: to insure this, it is a good plan to clarify it. Beef dripping is better than any other for cakes, &c., as mutton dripping frequently has a very unpleasant flavour, which would be imparted to the preparation.
Time - 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
Average cost, 1s.
Seasonable at any time.
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