So when we call pain a problem, we claim we do not deserve it. We are even prepared to scuttle God to maintain our own innocence. We will say that God is not able to do what He would like, or He would never permit persons such as ourselves to suffer. That puffs up our egos and soothes our griefs at the same time. “How could God do this to me?” is at once an admission of pain and a soporific for it. It reduces our personal grief by eradicating the deity. Drastic medicine, indeed, that only a human ego, run wild, could possibly imagine.

John Gerstner

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Breads	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

3	c	Mixed currants; raisins and sultanas, (450 g)
1 1/4	c	Strong tea; (300 ml)
3/4	c	Brown sugar; (175 g)
1	lg	Egg; beaten
2	tb	Melted butter; (25 g)
1 3/4	c	Plain flour; (275 g)
1/2	ts	Bicarbonate of soda

INSTRUCTIONS

Soak the fruit overnight in the tea, in a large mixing bowl. Pre-heat the
oven to 350 degrees (180 C; gas mark 4). Stir into the soaked fruit the
sugar, the egg and the melted fat. Sieve the flour and the bicarbonate of
soda into the mixture and mix well. Spoon into a lightly greased and lined
9"x5" (900g or 2lb) loaf tin and bake in a moderate oven for 1 to 1-1/4
hours, or until firm to the touch. Leave in the tin for about 5 minutes,
then turn out and cool on a wire rack. Serve sliced and generously
buttered. (Makes a 2 lb. loaf--900g) Typed by Lynn Thomas
dcqp82a@prodigy.com. Source: Beatrix Potter's Country Cooking by Sara
Paston-Williams.
Recipe by: Beatrix Potter's Country Cooking Posted to TNT - Prodigy's
Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by WWGQ25C@prodigy.com (MRS LYNN P THOMAS) on 2
Se, p 1997

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