Cake (Pound) (Mrs. Daniel Cloete's Book)

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1 cup currants
• 1 lb loaf sugar
• lb butter
• 4 eggs
• 1 breakfastcupful milk
• nutmeg
• 1 teaspoonful baking powder
• citron preserve

Instructions

1. Mix the butter, whipped to a cream, with 1 lb. of loaf sugar.
2. Then add the yolks of 4 eggs, then 1 lb. of flour with the baking powder mixed dry into it, then the breakfast-cup of milk, 1 cup of currants, the grated nutmeg, and some citron preserve cut small.
3. Lastly add the whites, whisked to a stiff froth.
4. Bake for one hour and a half in a moderate oven.