Currant Cake
1 cup butter. 2 cups sugar. 1/2 cup sweet milk. 5 eggs. 4 cups flour. 1/2 a nutmeg. 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
One pound currants washed, dried, and rolled in the flour.--Mrs. W. L. H.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
1 cup butter. 2 cups sugar. 1/2 cup sweet milk. 5 eggs. 4 cups flour. 1/2 a nutmeg. 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder.
One pound currants washed, dried, and rolled in the flour.--Mrs. W. L. H.