Raised bread-dough, 1½ lbs.;
Butter, ½ lb.;
Sugar, ¾ lb.;
Eggs, 4;
Cinnamon, 1 teaspoonful;
Nutmeg, 1;
Milk, 1 teaspoonful;
Baking soda, ½ teaspoonful;
Raisins, (seeded), 1 lb.
Melt half a pound of butter, and when cool, work it into a pound and a half of raised bread-dough. Beat four eggs and three quarters of a pound of rolled sugar together, and mix with the dough; add a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and a grated nutmeg. Dissolve half a teaspoonful of soda in a teaspoonful of milk, strain it over the dough, and work the whole with the hands for a quarter of an hour; then add a pound of seeded raisins, and put it into cake pans. Let it stand in them until light before putting it into the oven.