Groom's Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups butter (heaped)
• 2 cups raisins (seeded)
• 2 cups white sugar (heap-ed)
• 2 lbs. almonds, blanched and chopped
• 10 eggs
• h lb. citron, shaved fine
• 4 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Stir the almonds into the cake; flour the raisins and citron and put a layer in the cake pan, then put in a layer of cake, then fruit again, and so on alternately, finishing with cake.

2. 2

   Bake 2 hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household cook book (1902) by Smiley, James B[ethuel],, page 286. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GROOM'S CAKE. 2 cups butter (heaped). 2 cups raisins (seeded). 2 cups white sugar (heap- 2 lbs. almonds, blanched ed). and chopped. 10 eggs. h lb. citron, shaved fine. 4 cups flour

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