Coburg Cake
3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
¹⁄₂ cup syrup
¹⁄₂ cup water
1 cup butter milk (or sour milk)
¹⁄₂ lb. butter
3 eggs
2 tea-spoons soda
2 tea-spoons ground ginger
2 tea-spoons ground cinnamon
1 tea-spoon allspice
2 ozs. sweet almonds
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Whisk the eggs till light and creamy and mix with the butter. Add the syrup, water, spices and flour, mixing thoroughly, and lastly the soda dissolved in a little boiling water.
Blanch and chop the almonds, and sprinkle them in the bottom of the patty pans. Pour in the mixture and bake in a quick oven for about twenty minutes.