Currant Cake, No. 1
Two pounds of sugar, 1 pound of lard, 12 eggs, 2 quarts of milk, 1 ounce of soda, 2 pounds of small currants, 3½ pounds of strong cake flour, 2 ounces cream of tartar, flavor with strawberry.
Take the sugar and lard, rub to a cream, add the eggs, next add the milk. Dissolve soda in the milk, put the currants in, mix all together, take your sieve, put over the bowl. Put the flour and cream of tartar in sieve and sieve through, mix light. Bake in small cup cake pans, grease light. These cakes you do not ice. Sell for one cent each, or six for five cents. Bake in heat of 550 degrees F.