Light Buns

Ingredients

• 1/2 teaspoonful tartaric acid
• 1/2 teaspoonful bicarbonate of soda
• 1 lb flour
• 2 oz butter
• 2 oz loaf sugar
• 1/4 lb currants or raisins
• when liked
• a few caraway seeds
• 1/2 pint cold new milk
• 1 egg

Instructions

1. Rub the tartaric acid, soda, and flour all together through a hair sieve;
2. work the butter into the flour;
3. add the sugar, currants, and caraway seeds, when the flavour of them latter is liked.
4. Mix all these ingredients well together; make a hole in the middle of the flour, and pour in the milk, mixed with the egg, which should be well beaten;
5. mix quickly, and set the dough, with a fork, on baking-tins, and bake the buns for about 20 minutes.
6. This mixture makes a very good cake, and if put into a tin, should be baked 1-1/2 hour.
7. The same quantity of flour, soda, and tartaric acid, with 1/2 pint of milk and a little salt, will make either bread or teacakes, if wanted quickly.