Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• One pound butter
• one pound brown sugar
• two pounds raisins
• two pounds currants
• quarter pound almonds
• quarter pound mixed peel
• one pound flour
• ten eggs
• one teaspoon cinnamon
• one of cloves
• half teaspoon mace
• two teaspoons baking powder sifted into the flour
• flavor with vanilla or lemon

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, add eggs, and beat well, then add flour and spices and beat again; flour the raisins and currants and add fruit and nuts last; line tin with flour the thickness of well-greased paper.

2. 2

   Bake three and one-half hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Christmas Cake One pound butter, one pound brown sugar, two pounds raisins, two pounds currants, quarter pound almonds, quarter pound mixed peel, one pound flour, ten eggs, one teaspoon cinnamon, one of cloves, half teaspoon mace, two teaspoons baking powder sifted into the flour, flavor with vanilla or lemon

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