Steina's brown spice cake

Name: Steina's brown spice cake
Ingredients: 250 g butter, softened; 375 g soft brown sugar; 2 eggs; 500 g plain flour; 1½ tsp ground cloves; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 3 tsp cocoa powder; ¼ litre milk; 1 lemon, grated zest

From: Steina
Oven: 190 °C190 °C (375 °F)

Ingredients

250 g butter, softened9 oz butter, softened
375 g soft brown sugar13 oz soft brown sugar
2 eggs
500 g plain flour1 lb plain flour
1½ tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground cinnamon (Written '1f.', unclear; probably 'one full' teaspoon.)
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
3 tsp cocoa powder
¼ litre milk1 cup milk
1 lemon, grated zest

Method

Heat the oven to 190°C and grease 2 loaf tins.Heat the oven to 375 °F and grease 2 loaf tins.
Beat the butter and brown sugar together (with the grated lemon zest), then beat in the eggs well.
Then mix in all the dry ingredients (flour, cloves, cinnamon, bicarbonate of soda and cocoa).
Stir in the milk last.
Divide the batter between the loaf tins.
Bake at 190°C for about 1 hour.Bake at 375 °F for about 1 hour.

As she wrote it

Brún kryddkaka

(Steina)

250gr. smjör - 375gr. púðursykur 2 egg - 500gr. hveiti - 1 1/2 tsk. negull 1f. tsk. kanill - 1 tsk. natron - 3 tsk. Kakó 1/4 l. mjólk - (Rifið hýði af 1 sítr.)

Smjör + sykur => egg hrært vel síðan allt þurrefni síðast mjólk. Aflöng mót. 190°c í ca. 1 klst.