Cheap Fruit Cake.

1lb. flour, 6ozs. butter, 8ozs. sugar, 2 preserved eggs, 1lb. currants, ¼lb. peel, 1 cup sultanas, 2 teaspoons soda, ½ pint boiled milk, 2 teaspoons lemon essence, 1 teaspoon almond essence. Rub butter into flour, soda and sugar, add fruit, etc., beat eggs. Put into boiling milk and beat again, and add to dry ingredients. Mix well and backe 2½ hours, according to tin.