Plain Jumbles
378. Two pounds of flour,
One pound and a quarter of sugar,
Half a pint of milk,
Three eggs, and a half pound of butter,
One tea spoonful of dissolved salæratus,
Essence of lemon to the taste.
Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add the eggs, which must have been whisked till very thick, and some essence of lemon, then pour in the milk and salæratus. The salæratus should be dissolved in water, and a tea spoonful of this solution be mixed with the milk.
Bake in the form of jumbles.