Name: Currant Cake
Ingredients: ½ pound currants, washed and dried; 1 pound plain cake batter

Currant Cake

Ingredients

½ pound currants, washed and dried
1 pound plain cake batter

Directions

Stir the washed and dried currants into the plain pound cake batter.
Bake according to pound cake instructions.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Currants: Add tart, fruity pockets of flavour and moisture that contrast with the rich, dense crumb.
Pound cake batter: Provides the rich, dense, buttery structure that holds the currants and bakes into the cake.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.