Spice Cake

Name: Spice Cake
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Ingredients: 1½ teasp. baking-powder; 1 egg; 1 teasp. mixed spice; 3 oz. sugar; 8 oz. plain flour; 3 oz. margarine; ⅛ teasp. salt; 1–1½ gill milk or enough to make a soft dropping consistency

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 15

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1861

About

Ingredients

8 oz. plain flour
⅛ teasp. salt
3 oz.

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Grease a 6-in. cake-tin and line the bottom with greaseproof paper.

Sift flour, salt and spice into a bowl, cut in fat with a round-bladed knife, then rub with fingertips till quite fine. Add sugar and baking-powder. Mix with egg and milk to a soft dropping consistency. Put into the cake-tin an