Currant Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Flour, 1 lb.; butter, ½ lb.; sugar, ¾ lb.; currants, ½ lb.; eggs, 4; cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; ½ a lemon.
Mix together one pound of flour, half a pound of butter, three quarters of a pound of sugar, half a pound of currants (well washed), four eggs, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in hot water, half a lemon (squeezed and the rind grated). Line the bake-pans with buttered paper; drop the mixture upon it, and bake quickly.
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