The Victorians gave us many of the traditions we now
associate with Christmas. This Victorian-inspired sweet bread, featured in Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert
Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing, is a perfect complement to your holiday dinner, whether you’re serving ham,
turkey, or a beef roast.
Victorian
Currant Bread
(adapted by author Barbara Monajem from a recipe
featured in Beeton’s Book of Household
Management, published in 1861.)
3 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 stick butter, softened
1-1/4 cups milk
1-1/2 cups currants
1/3 cup diced candied lemon peel (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Mix the flour, baking powder, soda and salt
together. In a large bowl, cream
the butter and sugar. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk and mix
well. Add the currants and lemon peel and stir until thoroughly mixed.
Fill a greased loaf pan about 2/3 full and bake for
45-50 minutes or until a toothpick comes out more or less clean.
Old-fashioned cookbooks don’t give specific
information about pan sizes. This recipe made too much batter for one loaf pan.
The remaining batter can be poured into a muffin tin or mini-loaf pans, but
reduce bake time to 20–25 minutes.
Bake, Love,
Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing
An Amazon
bestselling cookbook
What do most authors have in common, no matter what
genre they write? They love desserts. Sweets sustain them through pending
deadlines and take the sting out of crushing rejection letters and nasty
reviews. They also often celebrate their successes—selling a book, winning a
writing award, making a bestseller list, or receiving a fabulous review—with
decadent indulgences. And when authors chat with each other, they often talk
about their writing and their lives. Recipes. Writing. Relationships. In this
cookbook 105 authors not only share their favorite recipes for fabulous cakes,
pies, cookies, candy, and more, they also share the best advice they’ve ever
received on love and writing.
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