Old Maid Cake

This recipe is from W.M.U Cookbook (Presbyterian Womens Missionary Union) costing 2/- Eleventh Edition.

We would never get away with naming a recipe “Old Maid Cake”, someone might be offended.

• Half lb flour
• 1/4 lb butter
• 6 oz soft sugar (icing sugar)
• 1/4 lb mixed peel
• 2 oz almonds
• 1/4 lb sultanas
• 1/2 teas baking powder
• 1/2 teacupful milk
• 3 eggs

1. Beat butter and sugar to a cream
2. Add beaten egg yolks mixed with milk
3. Add flour and baking powder
4. Add fruit
5. Add whites of eggs beaten
6. Bake in quick oven