Banbury Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 pound dough
• 1 pound butter
• good moist sugar
• brandy
• clean-washed currants
• sugar
• candied peel
• essence of lemon

Instructions

1. Take a pound of dough, made for white bread, roll it out and put bits of butter upon the same as for puff paste, till a pound of the same has been worked in.
2. Roll it out very thin, then cut it into bits of an oval size, according as the cakes are wanted.
3. Mix some good moist sugar with a little brandy, sufficient to wet it, then mix some clean-washed currants with the former.
4. Put a little upon each bit of paste, close them up, and put the side that is closed next the tin they are to be baked upon.
5. Lay them separate, and bake them moderately.
6. Afterward, when taken out, sift sugar over them.
7. Some candied peel may be added, or a few drops essence of lemon.