Tea Cakes (Rock Cakes) (Miss Lilla Spence's Recipe.)

Instructions

1. Have these ingredients ready: 1 lb. of butter; 1 lb. of flour; 1 lb. of moist sugar; eggs; pounded almonds; currants; some lemon-peel; brandy (or white wine).
2. Whisk the butter with the sugar, then add the yolks and whites of the eggs.
3. Mix all the other ingredients with the flour, and knead into the eggs and butter.
4. Lastly, mix in the brandy or wine.
5. Drop on buttered paper in tins, and bake for half an hour.