Cake, Luncheon
INGREDIENTS. -lb. of butter, 1 lb. of flour, oz. of caraway seeds, 1/21 lb. of currants, 6 oz. of moist sugar, 1 oz. of candied peel, 3 eggs, 1/21 pint of milk, 1 small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda. AVERAGE COST, 1s. 6d.
Rub the butter into the flour until it is quite fine; add the caraway seeds, currants (which should be nicely washed, picked and dried), sugar, and candied peel cut into thin slices; mix these well together, and moisten with the eggs, which should be well whisked. Boil the milk, and add to it, whilst boiling, the carbonate of soda, which must be SMALL POUND CAKES. well stirred into it, and, with the milk, mix ur the other ingredients. Butter a tin, pour the cake into it, and bake it in a moderate oven from 1 to 1½ hour.
TIME.-1 to 1½ hour.
SEASONABLE at any time.
Cake, Nice Plain. INGREDIENTS. -1 lb. of flour, 1 teaspoonful of Borwick's baking-powder, lb. of good dripping, 1 teacupful of moist sugar, 3 eggs, 1 breakfast- CAKE, PAVINI. cupful of milk, 1 oz. of caraway seeds, ib. of currants. AVERAGE COST, 1s.
Put the flour and the baking-powder into a basin; stir these 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 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, &c., 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.