A Nice Plum Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1/4 lb butter
• 1/2 lb sugar
• 1/2 lb currants
• 2 oz candied lemon-peel
• 1/2 pint milk
• 1 teaspoonful ammonia or carbonate of soda

Instructions

1. Put the flour into a basin with the sugar, currants, and sliced candied peel;
2. beat the butter to a cream, and mix all these ingredients together with the milk.
3. Stir the ammonia into 2 tablespoonfuls of milk and add it to the dough, and beat the whole well, until everything is thoroughly mixed.
4. Put the dough into a buttered tin, and bake the cake from 1-1/2 to 2 hours.