Portland Cake

Name: Portland Cake
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: butter (or margarine) 6 oz.; butter (or margarine) 6 oz.; mixed candied peel 4 oz.; moist sugar 2 lb.; Baker’s dough 2 lb.; flour 1 lb.; lard ¾ lb.; currants and sultanas ¾ lb.; nutmeg 1 large one; currants and sultanas ¾ lb.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

(A cut-and-come-again cake that keeps moist as long as there is any left.) This recipe of his mother’s is contributed by Mr. Stanley Bennett.

Ingredients

Baker’s dough 2 lb.
flour 1 lb.
lard

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Cake

Method

Put the dough into a warm basin.
Add the lard, and butter and work them in.
Mix in the candied peel, moist sugar, nutmeg, currants and sultans.
Add the flour.
And mix well together.
Three parts fill warm greased tins.
Stand in warm place to prove till well risen about 1 hour.
Bake in r