English tea cake
6 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | cup | Butter, softened |
| 1 | cup | Sugar |
| 2 | Eggs | |
| 2 | Scant c flour | |
| ½ | teaspoon | Baking powder |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
| 1 | teaspoon | Vanilla |
| 1 | tablespoon | Cherry juice |
| 12 | Maraschino cherries | |
| ½ | cup | White raisins or currants |
Directions
(served at 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 1¼ hours.