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Dessert
Currant Cake
A classic 1910 sweet built around butter, with Farmer’s original method and page citation.
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What you’ll need
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- Yolk 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
- 2 cups flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 cup currants mixed with
- 1 tablespoon flour
Make it happen
Directions
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Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and eggs and egg yolk well beaten. Then add milk, flour mixed and sifted with baking powder, and currants. Bake forty minutes in buttered and floured cake pan.
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