Vinegar Cake. Time—2 hours.
½ lb. flour, 2 oz. butter, ¼ lb. brown sugar, ¼ lb. currants, ¼ teaspoonful carbonate of soda, 1 dessertspoonful vinegar, 1 gill milk, ½ teaspoonful baking-powder, 1 teaspoonful cinnamon.
Mix the flour and butter together, then add the sugar, currants (washed and dried), cinnamon, and baking-powder. Mix together smoothly in a basin the carbonate of soda and the milk, then add the vinegar, and while it is effervescing, mix it quickly with the dry ingredients. Turn all into a greased cake-tin, and bake in a moderate oven about 1½ hour.
Yorkshire Tea Cakes. Time—2 hours.
¾ lb. flour, 1½ gill milk, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful castor sugar, 1 oz. German yeast, 1 oz. butter, salt.
Pass the flour through a sieve, and add a pinch of salt. Melt the butter in a stew-pan, add the milk, and let it become lukewarm. Cream the yeast with the castor sugar, add the milk, butter and egg, mix well, then strain into the middle of the flour, work in all the flour from the sides, then turn on to a floured board, and knead with the hand. Cut into two pieces, place in floured tins, cover and leave in a warm place to rise 1 hour. Bake from 20 to 30 minutes in a hot oven.
SWEETMEATS.
Chocolate Caramels. Time—¾ hour.
½ lb. grated chocolate, 1 breakfastcupful brown sugar, ¾ breakfastcupful milk, 1 oz. butter, 2 dessertspoonfuls golden syrup.