A Pavini Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb flour
• 1/2 lb ground rice
• 1/2 lb raisins stoned and cut into small pieces
• 1/4 lb currants
• 1/4 lb butter
• 2 oz sweet almonds
• 1/4 lb sifted loaf sugar
• 1/2 nutmeg grated
• 1 pint milk
• 1 teaspoonful carbonate of soda

Instructions

1. Stone and cut the raisins into small pieces;
2. wash, pick, and dry the currants;
3. melt the butter to a cream, but without oiling it; blanch and chop the almonds, and grate the nutmeg.
4. When all these ingredients are thus prepared, mix them well together; make the milk warm, stir in the soda, and with this liquid make the whole into a paste.
5. Butter a mould, rather more than half fill it with the dough, and bake the cake in a moderate oven from 1-1/2 to 2 hours, or less time should it be made into 2 cakes.