Delicious X-mas Cake

Ingredients

• Cream together 1 cup brown sugar
• ½ cup butter
• 2 well-beaten eggs
• 2 cups flour
• 3 tsps. Rumford baking powder
• 1 cup of milk
• ½ cup of finely-cut citron
• ½ cup seedless raisins
• ½ cup shell-bark meats
• 1 tsp. almond
• 1 tsp. vanilla

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add eggs, then flour alternately with milk.

2. 2

   Add remaining ingredients and bake in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Memorial Hall cook book (1919) by Willow Grove Memorial Hall (Willow Grove, Pa.), page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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