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Nov. 26-National Cake Day
CHRISTMAS CAKE. From "The Book of Household Management", By Isabella Beeton, 1861
5 teacupfuls of flour, 1 teacupful of melted butter,
1 teacupful of cream, 1 teacupful of treacle, 1 teacupful of moist
sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 oz. of powdered ginger, 1/2 lb. of raisins, 1
teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar.
Make the butter sufficiently warm to melt it, but do not allow
it to oil; put the flour into a basin; add to it the sugar, ginger, and
raisins, which should be stoned and cut into small pieces. When these
dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed, stir in the butter, cream,
treacle, and well-whisked eggs, and beat the mixture for a few minutes.
Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, add it to the dough, and be particular
that these latter ingredients are well incorporated with the others; put
the cake into a buttered mould or tin, place it in a moderate oven
immediately, and bake it from 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 hours.
CHRISTMAS CAKE. From "The Book of Household Management", By Isabella Beeton, 1861
5 teacupfuls of flour, 1 teacupful of melted butter,
1 teacupful of cream, 1 teacupful of treacle, 1 teacupful of moist
sugar, 2 eggs, 1/2 oz. of powdered ginger, 1/2 lb. of raisins, 1
teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar.
Make the butter sufficiently warm to melt it, but do not allow
it to oil; put the flour into a basin; add to it the sugar, ginger, and
raisins, which should be stoned and cut into small pieces. When these
dry ingredients are thoroughly mixed, stir in the butter, cream,
treacle, and well-whisked eggs, and beat the mixture for a few minutes.
Dissolve the soda in the vinegar, add it to the dough, and be particular
that these latter ingredients are well incorporated with the others; put
the cake into a buttered mould or tin, place it in a moderate oven
immediately, and bake it from 1-3/4 to 2-1/4 hours.
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