Genoa Cake

Ingredients:

1/4 lb butter

1/4 lb sugar

3 eggs

2 ozs sweet almonds

1 ozs peel

6 ozs flour

2 ozs sultanas

2 ozs currants

lemon rind

Method:

Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add eggs 1 by 1 and beat each 5 mins. Fold in the flour, then the grated lemon rind peel, sultanas and currants and 1/2 blanched almonds. Put into a papered tin. Sprinkle almonds on top and bake for 3/4 hour in a moderate oven.