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SODA CAKE (another way)

Rub half a pound of fresh butter into a pound of flour; add a pinch of salt, half a pound of picked and dried currants, a quarter of a grated nutmeg, three ounces of finely-shredded candied peel (lemon, orange, or citron), and two well-beaten eggs. Dissolve a small tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda in the third of a pint of lukewarm milk. Beat the ingredients well together, and bake the cake as quickly as possible after the soda is put in. Turn the dough into a buttered tin, and bake in a moderate oven. Time to bake, about an hour and three-quarters. Probable cost, 9d. per pound.