Warm the milk, and add the butter and salt to it. Work the butter and sugar to a cream, and then add the milk, then the flour, then the saleratus, and lastly the spice and fruit.
Drop Cake.
Four and a half tea-cups of flour.
Two and a half tea-cups of sugar.
Half a cup of butter, and five eggs.
Work the butter and sugar to a cream; beat the yolks and whites separately; add the yolks, then the whites, then the flour. Drop them on a buttered tin, and sprinkle caraway sugar plums on the top.
Sugar Gingerbread (rich).
One pound of sugar.
One pound of sifted flour.
Half a pound of butter.