A Nice Plain Cake

Ingredients

• 1 lb flour
• 1 teaspoonful Borwick's baking-powder
• 1/4 lb good dripping
• 1 teacupful moist sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 breakfast-cupful of milk
• 1 oz caraway seeds
• 1/2 lb currants

Instructions

1. Put the flour and baking-powder into a basin;
2. stir those together;
3. then rub in the dripping, add the sugar, caraway seeds, and currants;
4. whisk the eggs with the milk, and beat all together very thoroughly until the ingredients are well mixed.
5. Butter a tin, put in the cake, and bake it from 11/2 to 2 hours.
6. Let the dripping be quite clean before using: to insure this, it is a good plan to clarify it.
7. Beef dripping is better than any other for cakes, &c., as mutton dripping frequently has a very unpleasant flavour, which would be imparted to the preparation.