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Soda Cakes, Economical

No. 1.--Rub six ounces of good beef dripping into a pound of flour; add a pinch of salt, a tea-spoonful of mixed spice, a table-spoonful of caraway-seeds, and six ounces of moist sugar. Mix the dry ingredients thoroughly. Add a tea-spoonful of vinegar and a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda dissolved in half a pint of lukewarm milk. Bake in a moderate oven. Probable cost, 4d. per pound. No. 2.--Rub eight ounces of good beef dripping into two pounds of flour; add a salt-spoonful of salt, six table-spoonfuls of sugar, six ounces of picked and dried currants, a little nutmeg or spice, three eggs, and a pint of lukewarm milk, in which a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda has been dissolved. Mix thoroughly, and bake in a moderate oven. Time to bake, one hour or more, according to the size of the cakes. Probable cost, 6d. per pound.