A Very Good Luncheon Cake

Name: A Very Good Luncheon Cake
Total time: 1 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: clarified dripping (or half lard and half butter) ½ lb.; clarified dripping (or half lard and half butter) ½ lb.; cream of tartar 2 small teaspoonfuls; ground rice ½ lb.; clarified dripping (or half lard and half butter) ½ lb.; Plain flour 1 lb.; eggs 2 (preserved eggs will do); eggs 2 (preserved eggs will do); milk about ½ pint, more if required.; salt ¼ teaspoonful; bicarbonate of soda, 1 small teaspoonful; sultanas ½ lb.; sugar 4 oz.

Burford, 1898

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Plain flour 1 lb.
clarified dripping (or half lard and half

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Cake

Method

Rub the fat into the flour.
Sift the ground rice, cream of tartar, bicarbonate of soda, and salt together.
Blend it with the flour.
Add the sugar and sultanas.
Beat up the eggs with half the milk and use it to mix the cake, adding the rest of the milk as required.
Put into a greased and floured tin, and</