Ingredients. - Half a quartern of dough. Two eggs. Half a pound of sugar. One pound of currants.

Time required, about an hour and a half.

To make a Dough Cake:

1. Put half a quartern of dough (made as for bread-see "Bread," Lesson First) into a basin.

2. Take one pound of currants, wash them, dry them in a cloth, and pick them over, to see that there are no stones mixed with them.

3. Add the currants and half a pound of moist sugar to the dough.

N. B. - If liked, half a teaspoonful of mixed spice might be added.

4. Now break two eggs into the basin, and beat all the ingredients well together.

5. Take a quartern tin and grease it well inside with dripping.

6. Turn the mixture into the greased tin.

7. Put the tin into the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) until the cake is sufficiently baked; it will take about forty minutes.

N. B. - To test if the cake is done, run a clean knife into it; and if it comes out clean, the cake is sufficiently baked.

8. Then turn the cake out of the tin and place it on its side, leaning against a plate, until it is cold.