Plum Cake
1⁄2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1⁄4 cup chopped nuts
1⁄4 cup candied orange peel
1 cup raisins
1 cup currants
5⁄8 cup pickled fruit syrup or molasses
2 cups flour
1⁄2 teaspoon soda
1⁄2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons mixed spices
Mix and sift the flour, soda, cream of tartar, and spices. Put all the ingredients together in the order given, flouring the fruit with a little of the measured flour. Put it into a greased pan and bake it for one and one-quarter hours in an insulated oven, with stones heated as explained on page 225, till the paper is a light brown.