1 pound sugar - 2 cups. 10 eggs.

10 ounces butter - 1 large cup.

1/2 pint milk or water.

4 teaspoons baking powder.

2 pounds flour - 8 level cups.

Beat the sugar and eggs together a few minutes, in a good sized pan, as if baking sponge cake. Melt the butter in a little saucepan, beat it in and the milk, powder and flour. Beat up well. Drop spoonfuls on baking pans very slightly greased and bake in a moderate oven. They rise in the middle cone shaped For variations sprinkle currants on top, or a shred of citron, or gravel sugar. The latter is crushed loaf sugar sifted through the holes of a colander and the dust sifted away.

Cost of material - sugar 10, eggs, 20, butter 20, powder 4, flour 6; 60 cents for 4 1/4 pounds plain - about 80 to 100 according to size and lightness.