Black Cake

Name: Black Cake
Ingredients: One pound butter; one pound sugar; twelve eggs; one pound flour; three pounds stoned raisins; three pounds cleaned currants; five nutmegs; one-half ounce cinnamon; one teaspoonful cloves; one pound citron cut in small thin slices

From The universal cookery book, 1887

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Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Black Cake. One pound butter, one pound sugar, beaten to a cream ; stir in twelve eggs, beaten well ; sift in one pound flour; add three pounds stoned raisins, three pounds cleaned currants, five nutmegs, one-half ounce cinnamon, one teaspoonful cloves, one pound citron cut in small thin slices

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