A Nice Useful Cake

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb butter
• 6 oz currants
• 1/4 lb sugar 1 lb. of dried flour
• 2 teaspoonful baking-powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 teacupful milk
• 2 oz sweet almonds
• 1 oz candied peel

Instructions

1. Beat the butter to a cream;
2. wash, pick, and dry the currants;
3. whisk the eggs; blanch and chop the almonds, and cut the peel into neat slices.
4. When all these are ready, mix the dry ingredients together;
5. then add the butter, milk, and eggs, and beat the mixture well for a few minutes.
6. Put the cake into a buttered mould or tin, and bake it for rather more than 1-1/2 hour.
7. The currants and candied peel may be omitted, and a little lemon or almond flavouring substituted for them: made in this manner, the cake will be found very good.