COMMON CAKE, suitable for sending to Children at School

Ingredients

• 2 lb flour
• 4 oz butter or clarified dripping
• 1/2 oz caraway seeds
• 1/4 oz allspice
• 1/2 lb pounded sugar
• 1 lb currants
• 1 pint milk
• 3 tablespoonful fresh yeast

Instructions

1. Rub the butter lightly into the flour;
2. add all the dry ingredients, and mix these well together.
3. Make the milk warm, but not hot;
4. stir in the yeast, and with this liquid make the whole into a light dough;
5. knead it well, and line the cake-tins with strips of buttered paper; this paper should be about 6 inches higher than the top of the tin.
6. Put in the dough;
7. stand it in a warm place to rise for more than an hour;
8. then bake the cakes in a well-heated oven.
9. If this quantity be divided in two, they will take from 1-1/2 to 2 hours' baking.