Tray-bake sponge cake with currants.
Original Receipt from ‘The Bread And Biscuit Baker’s And Sugar-Boiler’s Assistant’ by Robert Wells, 1890
Ingredients
- 12 oz. butter
- 1 lb. sugar
- 13 eggs
- 12 oz. carbonate of soda
- 14 oz. acid
- 2 lbs. flour
- 8 ozs. currants
- Milk
Image: Alex Bray
Cooking Instructions
Cream butter with sugar. Add eggs. Mix flour with carbonate of soda and acid. Combined ingredients and add currants. Mix all together with milk, and bake in a small edged pan. Cut into squares when cold.
