English Pound Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of butter
• one and one-quarter pounds of flour
• one pound of pounded loaf sugar
• one pound of currants
• nine eggs
• two ounces of candied peel
• one-half ounce of citron
• one-half ounce of sweet almonds
• A glass of wine is usually added

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar, then yolks, flour, currants, candied peel, and almonds.

2. 2

   Whisk whites and blend.

3. 3

   Bake for 2 to 2.5 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 187. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ENGLISH POUND CAKE. One pound of butter, one and one-quarter pounds of flour, one pound of pounded loaf sugar, one pound of currants, nine eggs, two ounces of can- died peel, one-half ounce of citron, one-half ounce of sweet almonds; when liked, a little pounded mace. Work the butter to a cream; add the sugar, then the well-beaten yolks of eggs, next the flour, currants, candied peel, which should be cut into neat slices, and the almonds, which should be blanched and chopped, and mix all these well together; whisk the whites of eggs and let them be thoroughly blended with the other ingredients. Beat the cake well for twenty minutes and put it into a round tin, lined at the bottom and sides with strips of white buttered paper. Bake it from two hours to two and a half, and let the oven be well heated when the cake is first put in, as, if this is not the case, the currants will all sink to the bottom of it. A glass of wine is usually added

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