Cider Cake
1 cup of sugar
¹⁄₂ cup butter
1 egg
¹⁄₂ pint cider
1 level tea-spoon carbonate of soda
2 cups flour
1 cup stoned raisins
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream. Add the well beaten egg and the flour. Dissolve the carbonate of soda in a table-spoon of boiling water. Add it to the cider. Stir it into the mixture. Beat well together. Add the raisins. Bake in a moderate oven in a buttered tin.