"Plum Cake"
Transcript:
“Plum Cake”
1 lb. Flour.
1 - Butter.
1 - Sugar.
3 - Currants.
½ - Mixed Peel. (?)
½ - Almonds (cut in half) grinded*
½ - Dark Treacle
9 - Eggs
a little mixed spice.
a wine glass of brandy
Bake 7 hours
The butter to be beaten to a cream - The cake is better kept a week or two.
Mrs. Lesley’s
* This whole recipe is written in a different handwriting than most of the recipe book, but ‘cut in half’ is crossed out, with grinded written over, in the same handwriting as the rest of the recipes.
