Stir together, till quite white, a pound of sugar, three-quarters of a
pound of butter, then add four beaten eggs. Stir in gradually a pound
and a half of flour. Dissolve a tea-spoonful of saleratus in a tea-cup
of milk, strain and mix it with a glass of wine, then stir it into the
cake, together with a tea-spoonful of rosewater, and half a nutmeg. Just
before it is baked, add a pound of seeded raisins.