1903 Old-Fashioned Cake

Got an honourable mention in the Sunday Times Recipes (reference)

Ingredients:

  • 2 ½ lb (1.1 kg) flour

  • ¾ lb (340 g) butter

  • ¾ lb (340 g) sugar

  • ½ lb (230 g) currants

  • 2 oz (60 g) peel

  • 2 oz (60 g) carroway seeds

  • 1 oz (30 g) ground ginger

  • 1 pint (600 ml) milk

Method:

  1. Mix butter with all the dry ingredients then moisten with milk

  2. Put mixture in a well-greased tin and bake in a moderate oven

Submitted by Sarah A. Cole, Riverside-road, East Fremantle