Victorian Plum Cake Recipe | 1861 Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management

"A Nice Plum Cake"
1 lb. of flour
1/4 lb. of butter
1/2 lb. of sugar
1/2 lb. of currants
2 oz. of candied lemon-peel
1/2 pint of milk
*1 teaspoonful of [baking soda]
*1/2 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg
*1/2 teaspoonful of salt
Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, currants, and sliced candied peel; beat the butter to a cream, and mix all these ingredients together with the milk. Stir the ammonia into 2 tablespoonfuls of milk and add it to the dough, and beat the whole well, until everything is thoroughly mixed. Put the dough into a buttered tin, and bake the cake *for 1 hour at 300 degrees farenheit.
*asterisks denote changes to the original recipe.
This sweet cake is a simple variation on traditional Christmas plum pudding.
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