Title: English Tea Cake
Categories: British Cake European
Yield: 6 Servings
1 | c | Butter, softened |
1 | c | Sugar |
2 | | Eggs |
2 | | Scant c flour |
1/2 | ts | Baking powder |
1/4 | ts | Salt |
1 | ts | Vanilla |
1 | tb | Cherry juice |
12 | | Maraschino cherries |
1/2 | c | White raisins or currants |
(serv | ed a | t English High Tea) |
Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Grease and flour a small tube pan. Cream
butter and sugar. Add eggs, beating thoroughly. Sift flour, baking powder
and salt together. Gradually add to butter mixture. Add vanilla and cherry
juice. Fold in cherries and raisins. Bake 1 1/4 hours.