Queen Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 pound sugar
• 1 pound flour
• 1 pound butter
• 8 eggs
• 1/2 pound currants
• 1 nutmeg
• 1 mace
• 1 cinnamon

Instructions

1. Take a pound of sugar, beat and sift it, a pound of well dried flour, a pound of butter, eight eggs, and half a pound of currants, washed and picked.
2. Grate a nutmeg and an equal quantity of mace and cinnamon.
3. Work the butter to a cream, put in the sugar.
4. Beat the whites of the eggs twenty minutes and mix them with the butter and sugar.
5. Then beat the yolks for half an hour, and put them to the butter.
6. Beat the whole together, and when it is ready for the oven put in the flour, spices and currants.
7. Sift a little sugar over them, and bake them in tins.