Suffolk Harvest Cake

Name: Suffolk Harvest Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1lb white flour; 4oz cornflour; 1oz finely crumbled yeast; 1lb sugar; 8oz lard; ½ pint milk; 2 teaspoons baking powder; ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda; pinch of Powdered nutmeg; pinch of powdered cinnamon; 2 eggs; 1lb currants; ¼lb chopped candied lemon peel

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Farmhouse Kitchen

By Mary Norwak

Published 1991

About

Ingredients

1lb white flour
4oz cornflour
2 teaspoons

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Cake

Method

Sift together the flour, cornflour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, nutmeg and cinnamon. Rub in the crumbled yeast and stir in the sugar. Cut the lard into flakes and work into the dry ingredients. Beat together the eggs and milk and stir them into the other ingredients. Finally stir in currants and candied peel until the ingredients are well blended. Put into two greased and lined ten-inch