Tea Buns
1 lb. flour
2 ozs. butter
1 table-spoon powdered sugar
¹⁄₄ lb. currants
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon bi-carbonate of soda
¹⁄₂ tea-spoon tartaric acid
1 egg
1 pint milk
Mix the soda and tartaric acid with the flour. Sift the flour. Rub in the butter, add the sugar and the currants. Beat up the egg in a large basin. Add the milk to it, and when well mixed, stir in the flour, etc., gradually. Bake in a quick oven, in small cakes, in a buttered baking tin.