Recipes Featuring Currants
- Plain Fruit Cake | 1 lb flour
1 lb flour
1/4 lb dripping
2 tsps baking powder
Allspice
Salt
1/4 lb currants
1/4 lb white sugar
1/2 pint milk - Plum Cake | 1 lb butter
1 lb butter
1 lb sugar
10 eggs, separated
1 lb flour
1 heaping tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 lb raisins
1/2 lb currants
1/2 lb citron, sliced
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp mace
1 ts - Queen Cakes
1 lb dried flour
1 lb sifted sugar
1 lb washed currants
1 lb butter
8 eggs, separated
Rose water
- Cabinet Pudding | 1 cup citron, raisins and currants, chopped
1 cup citron, raisins and currants, chopped
Sponge cake, sliced
Cinnamon
Cloves
Nutmeg
1 quart milk
4 eggs
Pinch of salt
2 Tbsps butter, melted
- Wedding Fruit Cake
3/4 lb butter
1 lb sugar
10 eggs
1 pint molasses
1/2 cup brandy
1/2 cup Madeira wine
1 lb citron
3 lbs currants
4 lbs raisins
1/2 ounce
mace
Cinnamon
Cloves
2 nutmegs
1 tsp salt
4 cups - Wedding Cake I
1 pound butter
1 pound sugar
12 eggs
1 pound flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
3/4 teaspoon allspice
3/4 teaspoon mace
1/2 teaspoon clove
3 pounds raisins, seeded and cut in piec - Boston Cookies | 1 cup butter
1 cup butter
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 teaspoon soda dissolved in 1 1/2 tablespoons hot water
3 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped nut meats
1/2 cup currants
1 - Boiled Bread Pudding | 1/2 lb bread crumbs
1/2 lb bread crumbs
2 ounces powdered loaf sugar
1 pint hot milk
2 ounces currants
1 ounce candied peel, cut very small
3 eggs - Sippet Pudding
Butter
Bread
Currants
Citron
Raisins
Sugar
Milk
Eggs
4 Tbsps brandy
- Kettle Cake
1 dozen eggs
1 lb sugar
1 lb butter
1 lb flour
1 tsp mace
Juice of 1 large lemon
Rind of 1 large lemon
Optional:
2 lbs currants
2 lbs raisins
1/2 lb citron
4 Tbsps brandy
