Set oven at 375 degrees.
Butter and flour a 10-inch frying pan.
Soak the raisins and currants in the whiskey foran hour or so, or put in the microwave for 20 seconds until the fruit softensand plumps.
Sift together the first four ingredients.
Add melted butter to dry ingredients and mixuntil it resembles fine cornmeal.
Stir in beaten egg and milk (batter will be heavy).
Add the raisins and currants (whiskey and all) to batter and mix.
Sprinkle caraway seeds throughout batter.
Turnbatter into prepared pan and cut a deep cross into it with a sharp knife.(Tradition holds that the cross is a blessing before baking, and an indentationwith the tip of the knife in each quarter releases the fairies from cursing thebread.)
Checkthe oven in 30 minutes; turn oven down to 325, and bake 15-30 minutes moreuntil evenly brown. Take out and let cool in the pan. Alternatively, it can beeaten warm slathered with cold, sweet butter.