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Boiled Milk Cake

Whitchurch, Cardiff

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The Recipe

You will need

  • one pound flour
  • half a pound butter
  • six ounces brown sugar
  • half a pound currants
  • half a pound raisins
  • a little spice
  • three eggs
  • half a pint boiling milk
  • half a teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda

Method

  1. Rub the fat into the flour and work in the other dry ingredients. 
  2. Beat the eggs and pour into the dry mixture. 
  3. Gradually add the boiling milk (with the soda dissolved in it) and beat the mixture well. 
  4. Put into a greased cake tin and bake in a hot oven.

Whitchurch, Glamorgan.

 

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