Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Bread Cake.

On baking-day, take from your dough, after its second rising—2 cups risen dough. Have ready, also—

• 2 cups white sugar.
• 1 cup butter, creamed with the sugar.
• 3 eggs.
• 1 even teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
• 2 tablespoonfuls sweet milk—cream is better.
• ½ lb. currants, well washed and dredged.
• 1 teaspoonful nutmeg.
• 1 teaspoonful cloves.

Beat the yolks very light, add the creamed butter and sugar, the spice, milk, soda, and dough. Stir until all are well mixed; put in the beaten whites, lastly the fruit. Beat hard five minutes, let it rise twenty minutes in two well-buttered pans, and bake half an hour or until done.