Victoria Buns

Ingredients

• 2 oz pounded loaf sugar
• 1 egg
• 1-1/2 oz ground rice
• 2 oz butter
• 1-1/2 oz currants
• a few thin slices of candied peel
• flour

Instructions

1. Whisk the egg, stir in the sugar, and beat these ingredients well together;
2. beat the butter to a cream, stir in the ground rice, currants, and candied peel, and as much flour as will make it of such a consistency that it may be rolled into 7 or 8 balls.
3. Put these on to a buttered tin, and bake them from 1/2 to 3/4 hour.
4. They should be put into the oven immediately, or they will become heavy; and the oven should be tolerably brisk.