Another Very Good Cake

Ingredients

• four quarts of fine flower
• two pound and half of butter
• three quarters of a pound of Sugar
• four Nutmegs
• a little Mace
• a pound of Almonds finely beaten
• half apint of Sack
• apintofgood Ale- yest
• a pint of boiled Cream
• twelve yolks
• four whites of Eggs
• four pound of Currants
• two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned and quartered

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients into a fine paste and keep warm for half an hour before baking in a temperate oven for 2.5 hours.

2. 2

   Ice with the whites of 3 eggs and 0.75 pound of sugar.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight opened (1910) by Sir Kenelm Digby, page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ANOTHER VERY GOOD CAKE Take four quarts of fine flower, two pound and half of butter, three quarters of a pound of Sugar, four Nutmegs; a little Mace; a pound of Almonds finely beaten,half apint of Sack,apintofgood Ale- yest, a pint of boiled Cream, twelve yolks, and four whites of Eggs ; four pound of Currants. When you have wrought all these into a very fine past, let it be kept warm before the fire half an hour, before you set it into the oven. If you please, you may put into it, two pound of Raisins of the Sun stoned and quartered

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.