CRUMB САКЕ - CLASSICS OF THE AMERICAN FAMILIES IN 1913
The Classic Grand Americana recipe of 1913. The popular Crumb Cake was recommended to all the families of the United States of America in 1913. The original recipe of Marion Harris Neil, very popular use of the stale bread and the bread crumbs.
CRUMB САКЕ
For the Crumb cake you will need
1/2 loaf of a stale bread or 1/2 of pound of stale bread crumbs
2 cupful of all purpose white wheat flour
1 Egg
1/4 pound of fresh currants(black currants work the best)
1/2 cupful of white granulated sugar
1/4 pound of lard
1 teaspoonful of preferred mixed spices
1 teaspoonful of baking soda (Calumet or Glabber Girl works the best)
1 /2- to 1 cupful of sweet fresh milk-
FOR this stale bread crumbs cake sift the flour with baking powder and your favorite spices into a metal bowl or a plasti basin and gently rub in the lard. Then add the currants and the sugar(you may soak the currants in the dry sugar for two hours before baking), mix in breadcrumbs, and then add the cold beaten egg and enough of lukewarm sweet fresh milk to make a nice dough. Put the dough into a well buttered tin and bake until a skewer will come out dry in a middle hot owen.