Recipes Featuring Currants
- Lancashire Tea Cakes
6 cups flour
1/2 cup butter
2 cups milk
1 yeast cake
1 cup currants
2 ounces candied lemon
2 eggs, beaten
2 Tbsp sugar
Grated nutmeg
- Red Currant Sherbet
1 quart red currants
2 1/2 cups water
2/3 cup sugar
1 egg white - Fruit Cake | 1 lb powdered sugar
1 lb powdered sugar
1 lb butter
1 lb flour
12 eggs, whites & yolks separated
2 lbs raisins, seeded
2 lbs currants, washed & dried
1/2 lb citron, cut in little strips
1 Tbsp powdered mace
1 Tbs - Mince Pie Filling | 1 lb seeded raisins
1 lb seeded raisins
1 lb currants
1 lb finely chopped beef suet
The grated rind of 2 lemons
1 lb sugar
2 lbs peeled, cored and chopped apples
1 1/2 tsps mixed spices
1 cup brandy
1 Tbsp salt
- Tarts
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup currants
1 cup sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 cracker, rolled fine
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
blanched almonds
- Spanish Bunn
1 1/4 lbs flour
1/2 lb butter
1 lb sugar
5 eggs, lightly beaten
4 ounces cream
4 Tbsps wine & brandy, mixed
2 tsps cream of tartar, dissolved in 1 Tbsp hot water
1 tsp baking soda, dissolved in - Fruit Jumbles
2 cups sugar
1 cup butter
5 cups flour
5 eggs
3 1/2 ounces milk
1/2 tsp baking soda
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Allspice
Cloves, ground
1/4 lb currants - Boiled Currant Pudding
5 cups flour, sifted
2 tsps baking powder
1/2 cup suet, finely chopped
1/2 lb currants
Milk
Pinch of salt
- English Plum Pudding I
1/2 pound stale bread crumbs
1 cup scalded milk
1/4 pound sugar
4 eggs
1/2 pound raisins, seeded, cut in pieces, and floured
1/4 pound currants
1/4 pound finely chopped figs
2 ounce finely cut - Queen's Cake | 1 lb white sugar
1 lb white sugar
1 lb flour
3/4 lb butter
1 lb raisins, stoned
1/2 lb currants, washed & dried
1/4 lb citron, cut in little pieces
4 Tbsp brandy
4 Tbsp wine
4 Tbsp cream
6 eggs, whites & yolk
