Substitute one tea-spoon baking powder for the carbonate of soda. Beat the butter to a cream. Add the sugar, eggs, and fruit, beating all the time. Mix the baking powder with the flour. Add the flour to the mixture with the milk and beat well. Bake about one and a half hours in a moderate oven.
Seed Cake—Lunch
1 lb. flour
¹⁄₄ lb. dripping or butter
¹⁄₄ lb. moist sugar
1 tea-spoon ground carraway seed
1 egg
1 oz. candied peel
¹⁄₂ pint milk
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon carbonate of soda
Rub the butter into the flour. Add sugar, seed, candied peel, egg, and the milk in which the soda has been dissolved. Mix the whole thoroughly, working together with the hand. Bake at once for one and a quarter hours in a moderate oven.
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Index
- Almond Cake, [16].
- ” ” (Dutch), [19].
- ” Cakes, [91].
- ” Icing, [67].
- Almonds, How to Blanch, [4].
- American Hard Gingerbread, [73].
- American Soft Gingerbread, [72].
- American Sponge Cake, [11].
- Angel Cake, [17].
- Baking Powder, [2].
- Balloon Cakes, [113].
- Berwick Sponge Cake, [11].
- Black Cake, [51].
- Boiled Icing, [66].
- Bottle Cakes, [91].
- Bread Cake, [78].
- Breakfast Scones, [114].
- Brioche, [79].
- Buttercup Cake, [42].
- Butter Rings, [92].
- Californian Fig Cake, [35].
- Caraway Cakes, [93].
- Chocolate Cakes, [42]-[44].
- ” ” [93], [94].
- ” Icing, [67], [68].
- Cider Cake, [52].
- Cinnamon Biscuits, [94].
- ” Cakes, [85].
- Coburg Cakes, [95].
- Cocoanut Cake, [17].
- ” Cones, [96].
- ” Icing, [68].
- Cocoanut Pound Cake, [18].
- ” Rings, [96].
- Coffee Cake, [36].
- Cornflour Cakes, [97].
- Cringles, [115].
- Crullers, [85].
- Crumpets, [112], [115].
- Currant Cake, [52].