Ingredients. - One pound of flour. Four ounces of dripping. Baking-powder, allspice, and salt. Quarter of a pound of currants. Half a pint of milk. Quarter of a pound of sugar.

To make a Plain Cake:

1. Take one pound of flour and put it in a pan or large basin.

2. Mix into the flour a teaspoonful of baking-powder and half a salt-spoonful of salt.

3. Take four ounces of clarified dripping, and rub it well into the flour with your fingers until there are no lumps remaining.

4. Take a quarter of a pound of currants, put them in a cloth, and rub them clean.

5. Add the currants to the flour; also half a teaspoonful of ground allspice and a quarter of a pound of brown sugar.

6. Mix these ingredients together with a wooden spoon.

7. Now pour in half a pint of milk, and mix it all well together. 13

8. Take a half-a-quartern tin and grease it inside with a piece of dripping.

9. Pour this mixture into the tin.

10. Put the tin into the oven (the heat should rise to 240°) to bake for one hour.

11. After that time, take the tin out of the oven.

12. Turn the cake out of the tin and stand it on its side, to cool.