Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Mock Yeast Cake

1 tbspn. butter
1/2 cup hot mashed potato
1 cup sugar
1 beaten egg
3/4 cup milk
Little lemon essence and nutmeg
1/2 cup sultanas
2 cups S.R. flour

Method: Beat butter into potato, add remaining ingredients in order given. Place mixture in large cake tin, sprinkle over topping made from: -

1 cup plain flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 lb. melted butter
Little nutmeg or cinn.

Mix all well together till crumbly. Bake in moderate oven.

Source: contributed by T. Pope in Recipe Book Containing the Favourite Recipes of Members of the Payneham Methodist Women's Fellowship, 1961 (Payneham [Adelaide]: 1961), p.10.
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