Raised Cake

Ingredients

• 1 quart flour
• 0.5 pound butter
• 1 pint sugar
• 2 eggs
• 0.5 teacup yeast
• 1 teacup seeded raisins
• 1.5 teacups currants
• 1 tablespoonful flour
• 1 teaspoonful soda

Instructions

1. Cream butter and sugar together.
2. Add the flour to the creamed mixture.
3. Break eggs in and add yeast.
4. Beat the whole well.
5. Add the seeded raisins and currants.
6. Stir all well and put it to rise for about an hour with good yeast.
7. After rising, make off the dough and put into butter-greased pans.
8. When making off the second time and putting in pans, first sift together a tablespoonful of flour with a teaspoonful of soda and mix into the batter.
9. Let it rise for thirty minutes.
10. Put to bake.