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English Plumcake

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g Butter (fresh)
• 500 g Sugar (grated, sifted)
• 500 g Powdered starch
• 500 g Currants (washed, dried)
• 12 pcs Eggs
• 70 g Candied peel (finely sliced)
• 8 g Cinnamon
• 4 g Cloves (ground)
• 1 wine glass Madeira or Arrack

Instructions

1. Cream the melted, clarified, and re-solidified butter until light and fluffy.
2. Gradually add egg yolks, spices, sugar, and currants, then beat the mixture vigorously for half an hour until it forms bubbles.
3. Lightly fold in the beaten egg whites, then stir in the starch and finally the Madeira.
4. Immediately place the cake in the oven and bake at medium heat for an hour and a half.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.