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Soda Cake

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda
  2. a pound of sugar
  3. a pound of butter beaten
  4. Cut
  5. a pint of milk
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Dissolve half a pound of sugar and a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda in a pint of milk ;
  2. put to it half a pound of butter beaten to a cream and half a nutmeir Sfrated ;
  3. add Q:raduallv enouo-h Hour to make a stiff batter, beat it well, put it in shallow pans and bake in a quick oven.
  4. If half an inch deep, bake twenty minutes, in a moderate oven.
  5. Cut it in small squares to serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife