1 cupful sugar
1/2 cupful Crisco
2 cupfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
1 teaspoonful salt
4 tablespoonfuls currants
4 tablespoonfuls chopped nut meats
2 tablespoonfuls chopped candied citron peel
3 eggs
2/3 cupful milk
1 teaspoonful vanilla extract
Cream Crisco and sugar together, add yolks of eggs well beaten. Beat
whites stiffly and add alternately with milk. Add sifted flour, baking
powder and salt, then fruits, nuts and extract. Divide mixture into
Criscoed and floured gem pans, and bake twenty minutes in moderate
oven.
Sufficient for eighteen drop cakes.