CAKES.
115
and using instead 4oz. sweet and 1oz. bitter almonds and
half a pint of cream.
Cake, Vinegar.—Rub 2oz. of butter or clarified dripping
into 3lb. of flour till it is all in crumbs, then mix to it 4oz.
brown sugar, 4oz. well-washed and dried currants, half a
teaspoonful of baking powder, and the same of powdered
cinnamon. Then mix together in another basin half a
teaspoonful of carbonate of soda and a gill of milk; when
smooth, pour into this a tablespoonful of vinegar, and,
while it is in full effervescence, stir into it the dry ingre-
dients, then put the mixture quickly into a ready-buttered
tin, and bake at once in a moderate oven from one and a
half to two hours.