Take a pound of sugar, beat and sift it, a pound of well-dried
flour, a pound of butter, eight eggs, and half a pound of currants
washed and picked; grate a nutmeg and an equal quantity of mace and
cinnamon, work the butter to a cream, put in the sugar, beat the
whites of the eggs 20 minutes, and mix them with the butter and
sugar. Then beat the yolks for half an hour and put them to the
butter. Beat the whole together, and when it is ready for the oven,
put in the flour, spices, and currants; sift a little sugar over
them, and bake them in tins.