Delicious World Recipes

Quick English Currant Bread

Quick English Currant Bread

Ingredients

  • 5 level c flour
  • 2 c light brown sugar
  • 12 tsp salt
  • 12 lb raisins
  • 12 lb currants
  • 34 c candied mixed fruit
  • 2 12 c buttermilk
  • 12 lb margarine
  • 1 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 heaping tsp baking powder
  • 1 level tsp baking soda
  • 2 eggs

Directions

  1. Cream sugar and margarine
  2. Add eggs
  3. Combine flour salt spices baking powder and baking soda
  4. Add raisins currants and candied fruit
  5. Add buttermilk alternately with flour mixture Make as moist as fruit cake
  6. Pour into 2 loaf pans greased and lined with waxed paper
  7. Bake in a 350 oven for 12 hour then at 300 for last half hour
  8. Cool on rack
  9. Wrap in foil and store in refrigerator