Four tumblers of flour.
Two and a half of powdered white sugar.
Three quarters of a tumbler of butter.
One tumbler of milk, two lemons, three eggs, and one heaping teaspoonful of soda. Saleratus will do, but is not so good as soda.
This serves for two square loaves. Dissolve the soda in the milk, heat the yolks, and strain them. Cut the whites to a stiff froth, work the butter and sugar till they look like cream, then add the yolks, then the milk, then the whites of eggs, and then the flour. When thoroughly mixed, grate in the peel of one lemon, and squeeze in the juice of two, and this must not be done till it is ready to set immediately into the oven.
A tumbler and a half of currants improves this cake. Put them in with the lemon juice.
This is delicious when first baked, but will not keep so well as No. 2, which is richer.
Gingernuts.
Six pounds of flour.
One pound and a quarter of butter, rubbed into the sugar.