Election Cake

Ingredients

• Five pounds sifted flour
• two of butter
• two of sugar
• thre gills distillery yeast
• four eggs
• gill of wine
• gill of brandy
• one quart sweet milk
• half an ounce of nutmeg
• two pounds raisins
• one of citron

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and flour together very fine, add half the sugar, then the yeast and half the milk (hot in winter, blood-warm in summer), then add the eggs, then remainder of the milk, and the wine; beat well and let rise in a warm place all night.

2. 2

   In the morning beat a long time, adding brandy, sugar, spice, and fruit well floured, and allow to rise again very light, after which put in cake pans and let rise ten or fifteen minutes; have the oven about as hot as for bread.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ELECTION CAKE. . Five pounds sifted flour, two of butter, two of sugar, thre gills distillery yeast or twice the quantity of home brewed, four eggs, gill _ of wine, gill of brandy, one quart sweet milk, half an ounce of nut- “meg, two pounds raisins, one of citron

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