Description:

Served at high tea in England

Source:

Patty Johnson

Serves/Makes:One Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup (225 ml) butter, softened
• 1 cup (225 ml) sugar
• 2 eggs
• scant 2 cups (475 ml) flour
• 1/2 tsp (2 ml). baking powder
• 1/4 tsp (1 ml). salt
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) white raisins or currants
• 12 maraschino cherries
• 1 tbsp (15 ml). cherry juice
• 1 tsp (5 ml). vanilla

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees (125 C.).
• Grease and flour a small tube pan.
• Cream butter and sugar together.
• Add eggs, beating thoroughly.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Add to butter mixture, gradually.
• Add vanilla and cherry juice.
• Fold in cherries and raisins (or currants).
• Pour into prepared pan and bake 1 1/4 hours or until done.
• Test by using a wooden toothpick.

Comments

Mrs. Robert F. Miller contributed this recipe to "Pass the Plate" Cookbook. She mentions that this recipe was given to her by a dear friend who brought it back with her in 1936 from Woldingham, England. She says it is "very delicious"!