Quick Cake.
Reading edition
Take: Raised bread-dough, 1½ lbs.; butter, ½ lb.; sugar, ¾ lb.; eggs, 4; cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful; nutmeg, 1; milk, 1 teaspoonful; soda, ½ teaspoonful; raisins, (seeded), 1 lb.
Melt half a pound of butter, and when cool, work it into a pound and a half of raised bread-dough. Beat four eggs and three quarters of a pound of rolled sugar together, and mix with the dough; add a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and a grated nutmeg. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of soda in a teaspoonful of milk, strain it over the dough, and work the whole with the hands for a quarter of an hour; then add a pound of seeded raisins, and put it into cake pans. Let it stand in them until light before putting it into the oven.
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