Plum Cake

Name: Plum Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: jamaica pepper; black pepper; nutmeg; cloves; caraway; lemon; cloves; nutmeg; cinnamon; butter; orange peel; raisins; eggs; eggs; sugar; sugar; orange peel; french brandy; cinnamon; ginger; ginger; almonds; almonds; nutmeg; carvey-seed

Early Eighteenth Century

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Year in a Scots Kitchen

By Catherine Brown

Published 1996

About

Method

The main spices used in the forerunner of the ‘black bun’ were cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and caraway. These were used along with currants, lemon and orange peel and almonds