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Christmas Cake

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 7

Time to bake is about two hours. Should not be kept in a damp place.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 373. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Cake. — Beat one jwund of butter into a cream, and mix with it three eggs well beaten, two pounds of flour, one pound of currants stoned and di'ied, one pound of sugar, five small tea-spoonfuls of baking powder, and a quarter of a pint of milk

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