Elisabeth Ayrton

Vinegar Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1

    large cake
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
English Provincial Cooking
English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

  • About

A Norfolk farmhouse recipe for a good, plain fruit cake that will keep for a week or so, the flavour improving all the time. The recipe requires no eggs.

Ingredients

  • 2 sticks (240 g) butter
  • 1 lb (½

Method

Rub the butter into the flour to give a crumb-like consistency. Mix in the sugar and dried fruit.

Put the milk into a large jug or bowl and add the vinegar. Pour the bicarbonate of soda and milk mixture all at once into the milk and vinegar. It will froth and may overflow so should be held over the cake bowl. Stir the liquid into the cake mixture, beat well and put into a well-greased <