Currant cakes (old-fashioned christmas drop cakes) Recipe

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Currant cakes (old-fashioned christmas drop cakes)

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Ingredients:

1	lbs	Sugar
		6 ea Egg
1/4	tsp	Salt
		1 ea Lemon, juice of
1	lbs	Butter
3/4	lbs	Flour
1/2	lbs	Currants
		1 ea Lemon, rind of

Procedures:

1	Mix the currants with some of the flour.
2	Work butter and sugar together to a smooth cream, then slowly work in whole eggs one at a time.
3	Add a little of the flour, rind and juice of the lemon and salt.
4	Work in slowly the rest of the flour and the currants.
5	Drop by spoonfuls on large buttered pans, pressing flat with a knife as the cakes are better when very thin.
6	A good plan is to heat the pan a bit and allow the cakes to melt as much as possible before putting them in the oven to bake.
7	Be sure to butter the pans thoroughly; otherwise, the thin cakes will be difficult to remove.?(recipe didn"t include baking time or temp)