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Queen's Cake

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
5 eggs
1 tsp lemon extract
1 tsp orange extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 cups currants

Cream the butter and sugar, well.  Add eggs, lemon and orange
extract.

Sift together dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and cinnamon).
Add dry ingrdients to creamed mixture.  Using wax paper take 1
tablespoon flour and add to the currants to coat them. Then fold
the currants into the above creamed and floured ingredients.  Mix
well together.

Bake in greased and floured bread loaf pan, at 325 degrees for 1
hour and 20 minutes.  Can be made in greased and floured bunt pan
also, which would be baked for 1 hour or less.

Cool in Pan 10 minutes and turn out onto cake rack.

NOTE - Taste better as it ages the 2nd or 3rd day.

Printable version: queens.txt.