Lunchbox biscuits

I am tired of going through lots of packet of biscuits for my boys lunchboxes. They enjoyed eating these at my mum's house in the holidays, so I got the recipe from her. My mum used to make them a lot when I was little, she got the recipe from her mother. They were always called Buddle cakes, named so because the Buddle boys, who were neighbours of my mum when she was little always had these biscuits.

Currant Cake (Buddle cakes)

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

¾ lb currants

1 tsp cream of tarter

½ tsp bicarb soda

few drops of lemon essence

¼ lb butter

¾ cup milk

Method:

Cream butter and sugar well, add eggs, milk, with the dissolved soda, sift in flour and cream of tarter, lastly add currants.

Bake in a moderate oven (180C) for ¾ to 1 hour.

For small cakes, add 1 cup coconut, and no milk, essence vanilla. Bake in a hot oven 450F to 500F.

This was my grandma's recipe, but I found they were better baked at 180C for 10 - 15 minutes. I'm lucky I have an electric oven and not a wood fired one like hers! I do have fond memories of making toast on a big fork in front of the open oven though!