WHOLEMEAL ROCK CAKES

1 lb. of meal
3 oz. of butter or vege-butter
1/4 lb. of sugar
a cupful of currants and sultanas mixed
3 oz. of blanched almonds, chopped fine
1 teaspoonful of cinnamon
or the grated rind of half a lemon
3 eggs
and very little milk (about 3/4 of a teacup)

Rub the butter into the meal, add the fruit, almonds, sugar, and cinnamon, beat up the eggs with the milk, and mix the whole to a stiff paste. Flour 1 or 2 flat tins, place little lumps of the paste on them, and bake the cakes in a quick oven 25 to 35 minutes. Particular care must be taken that the paste should not be too moist, as in that case the cakes would run. Vege-butter is a vegetable butter, made from the oil which is extracted from cocoanuts and clarified. It can be obtained from some of the larger stores, also from several depôts of food specialities. It is much cheaper than butter, and being very rich, goes further.