Christmas Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half pounds flour
• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound white sugar
• 1 pound candied peel
• 4 pounds currants
• 2 pounds raisins
• 2 dessertspoons baking powder
• 2 nutmegs
• mace, cinnamon, lemon, vanilla, rose—water, bitter almond, to taste
• 1 tumbler of whisky or brandy
• 10 eggs
• 1 pound chopped almonds

Method

1. 1

   Mix dry ingredients, cream butter and sugar, add yolks of eggs, flavorings, and liquors; mix with dry ingredients.

2. 2

   Beat whites of eggs light, add last with sufficient milk to make the right consistency.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal Victoria cook book (1900) by Ont.). Woman's Auxiliary Royal Victoria Hospital (Barrie, page 54. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHRISTMAS CAKE One and one-half pounds flour, 1 pound butter, 1 pound white sugar, 1 pound candied peel, 4 pounds currants, 2 pounds raisins, 2 dessertspoons baking powder, 2 nutmegs, mace, cinnamon, lemon, vanilla, rose— water, bitter almond, to taste, pinch of salt, 1 tumbler of whisky or brandy, 10 eggs, 1 pound chopped almonds

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