Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• Half pound of sugar
• Half pound of butter
• 5 egos
• 1 wineglass brandy (if desired)
• 1 wineglass wine
• 4 pound flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 pound of raisins
• 1 pound of currants
• 4+ pound citron peel
• + pound lemon peel
• | pound blanched almonds

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients together to form a batter.

2. 2

   This makes a cake of 4 or 5 pounds.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS CAKE.—Half pound each of sugar and butter, 5 egos, 1 wineglass brandy (if desired), 1 wineglass wine, 4 pound flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 pound each of. raisins and currants, 4+ pound citron peel, + pound lemon peel, | pound blanched almonds. This makes a cake of 4 or 5 pounds. Mrs. A. URQUHART. GOOD LAYER CAKE.—Half cup butter (small), $ level cup white sugar, 2 eggs, § cup milk, 14 level cups flour, 1 heaping teaspoon baking powder, $ teaspoon vanilla. Mix butter and sugar well, then put in the eggs one at a CAKES. 125 time, beating first one well into butter and sugar, before adding the second, after which beat second well also. Add milk, and lastly the fleur into which the baking powder has been sifted and the vanilla. Icing :—Soak 1 teaspoon gelatine in 2 tablespoons cold water until soft, then add 2 tablespoons boiling water, and boil 1 minute. Measure out on a large plate, and to every tablespoon of it add 4 tablespoons powdered sugar, freed from lumps. Beat well, as the longer it is beaten the hghter and whiter it becomes. Flavor with a small teaspoon vanilla or rose water and 2 or 3 drops pineapple. Mrs. G. Hoae. LEMON JELLY CAKEW—One cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon water, 3 eggs, 1} cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 tablespoon butter. Bake in jelly cake tins. Lemon filling :—One apple peeled and grated, juice and grated rind of 1 lemon, 1 egg beaten light, 1 cup sugar, 1 tablespoon flour. Put on the stove and stir till it boils. Use when cold. Mrs. F. M. MonTGoMERy. ARROWROOT CAKE.—Half pound butter

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