GERMAN YEAST CAKE

750g flour
1.25 pints milk, warmed
125g each of butter & sugar
pinch salt
3 eggs
2 oz raisins
1 oz yeast
2 or 3 buttered moulds

Dissolve yeast in a little of the warmed milk and let it stand to rise. Melt butter.
In separate bowl put butter, add the flour, sugar & eggs one by one, the raisins & milk: beating well all the time.

Add the yeast, and continue beating the dough until it comes away from the sides of bowl
Three-quarters fill the moulds and leave for 2 hours to rise. Bake in mod oven for 1 hour.