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Plum Cake, Excellent

Mix three tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder and half a tea-spoonful of salt with one pound of flour. Rub into this half a pound of butter, lard, or sweet beef dripping, or portions of each. Add three-quarters of a pound of washed, dried, and picked currants, a quarter of a pound of stoned and chopped raisins, half a pound of moist sugar, two ounces of candied peel cut into narrow strips, and a small nutmeg, grated. Mix these ingredients thoroughly. Whisk two eggs for five or six minutes. Mix with them four drops of almond essence and a little milk new-milk-warm. Stir this into the flour, and add as much milk as will make it into a light dough. Put it into a large buttered tin, or two small ones, and bake immediately for one or two hours, according to the size of the tins. Probable cost, 2s. Sufficient for a good-sized cake.