New Year’s Cakes. ( Very nice. ) ✠
1¼ lb. sugar.
1 lb. butter.
½ pint cold water.
3 eggs.
3 lbs. flour.
1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water.
4 tablespoonfuls caraway seed sprinkled through the flour.
Rub the butter, or, what is better, chop it up in the flour; dissolve the sugar in the water; mix all well with the beaten eggs, cut in square cakes, or with oval mould, and bake quickly.