English Bride's Cake (Fruit Cake)

Ingredients

• 1 lb. of butter
• 1/2 tbsp. of ground cloves
• 4 ground nutmegs
• 1 tsp. of baking soda
• 1 lb. of flour
• 1 cup of molasses
• 1 pt. of brandy
• 10 lbs. of raisins
• 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
• 4 lbs. of currants
• 2 lbs. finely cut citron
• 1 tbsp. of ground bark of nutmeg tree

Method

1. 1

   The butter is stirred to a cream with sugar and yolks of eggs.

2. 2

   Then work in 0.5 lb. of flour, the brandy mixed with the spices and the molasses in which the soda is dissolved, the beaten whites of eggs, then raisins, currants, citron and the other 0.5 lb. of flour.

3. 3

   The cake is baked 3 to 4 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of German cooking and baking (1922) by Lina Wachtelborn Meier, page 148. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH BRIDE'S CAKE (FRUIT CAKE). 1 lb. of butter % tbsp. of ground cloves 1 lb. brown sugar 4 ground nutmegs 10 eggs 1 tsp. of baking soda 1 lb. of flour 1 cup of molasses 1 pt. of brandy 10 lbs. of raisins 1 tbsp. ground cinnamon 4 lbs. of currants 2 lbs. finely cut citron 1 tbsp. of ground bark of nutmeg tree

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