Common Plum Cake

Ingredients

• 3 lb flour
• 6 oz butter or good dripping
• 6 oz moist sugar
• 6 oz currants
• 4 oz pounded allspice
• 2 tablespoonful fresh yeast
• 1 pint new milk

Instructions

1. Rub the butter into the flour;
2. add the sugar, currants, and allspice;
3. warm the milk, stir to it the yeast, and mix the whole into a dough;
4. knead it well, and put it into 6 buttered tins;
5. place them near the fire for nearly an hour for the dough to rise, then bake the cakes in a good oven from 1 to 11/4 hour.
6. To ascertain when they are done, plunge a clean knife into the middle, and if on withdrawal it comes out clean, the cakes are done.