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Yankee Cakes

Beat a cupful of butter to cream, stir into it an equal quantity of sugar, and add a pinch of salt, a flavouring of nutmeg or lemon, grated, two well-whisked eggs, and a tea-spoonful of carbonate of soda which has been dissolved in a cupful of sour milk. Mix these ingredients thoroughly, and stir into the mixture as much flour as will make a stiff batter. Butter or grease a dripping-tin thickly. Beat the cake mixture over the fire for a short time. When it is hot, pour it at once into the tin, and bake the cake in a well-heated oven. It will be done in from half to three-quarters of an hour. Probable cost, 1s.