Bread and Butter Cake

Name: Bread and Butter Cake (Boterhamkoek)
Cuisine: Netherlands
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon of ginger.; 3 teaspoons of baking powder; ½ teaspoon of nutmeg; 1 teaspoon of cinnamon; 2 teaspoons of anise-seeds (optional); ½ pint of milk; 3 ozs. of brown sugar; ½ lb. of syrup; 1 lb. of flour or wholemeal flour; 1 lb. of flour or wholemeal flour

Boterhamkoek

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes of all Nations

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

About

This is one of the great national Dutch cakes or “sweet” breads. The best are made at Deventer by the famous firm of Verkade, and can be bought in England at certain shops.

Ingredients

1 lb. of flour or wholemeal flour
½ lb. of syrup
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Europe
Netherlands
Vegetarian
Bread

Method

Mix all the dry ingredients in a basin. Mix the syrup and the milk, and add gradually to the dry ingredients, working into a firm dough. This should be done somewhat quickly. Put the mixture in a well greased tin, more or less like that used for a sandwich loaf, and bake for 1 to 1½ hours in a moderate oven. Let stand till quite cool. Should it be