Little Plum Cakes

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (8)
Instructions (8)
  1. Rub half a pound of butter into a pound of flour.
  2. Add the same weight of sugar and a little beaten mace.
  3. Beat four eggs very well, leaving out half the whites.
  4. Beat three spoonfuls of yeſt with three spoonfuls of warm cream.
  5. Strain the egg and cream mixture into the flour mixture.
  6. Make the dough up light.
  7. Set the dough before the fire to rise.
  8. Just before sending to the oven, put in three quarters of a pound of currants.
Original Text
To make little PLUM CAKES. TAKE a pound of flour, rub into it half a pound of butter, the same of sugar, a little beaten mace, beat four eggs very well (leave out half the whites) with three spoonfuls of yeſt, put to it a quarter of a pint of warm cream, ſtrain them into your flour, and make it up light, set it before the fire to rise; juſt before you send it to the oven put in three quarters of a pound of currants.
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