Home-made Cake

Ingredients

• half a pound of sugar
• half a pound of good butter
• four eggs
• half a saltspoonful of nutmeg
• half a pound of flour
• two ounces of well-cleansed currants
• two ounces of peeled sweet almonds
• one gill of brandy
• two ounces of candied orange
• two ounces of shred, candied citron

Method

1. 1

   Mix sugar and butter for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Add egg yolks, beat egg whites, and combine.

3. 3

   Add nutmeg, flour, currants, and almonds.

4. 4

   Mix well and add brandy.

5. 5

   Layer in a buttered mold with candied orange and citron.

6. 6

   Bake in a moderate oven for two hours, cool, and glaze before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The table (1889) by Alexander Filippini, page 295. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Home-made Cake. — Put into a bowl half a pound of sugar and half a pound of good butter. Mix thoroughly with the hand for fifteen minutes. Break four eggs, leaving the whites in a basin, and drop the yolks in with the butter and sugar. Mix again. Now beat the whites to a froth and add them to the other ingredients. Grate in half a saltspoon- ful of nutmeg; add half a pound of flour; mix well again; stir in two ounces of well-cleansed currants (No. 1080), and two ounces of peeled 352 THE TABLE. sweet almonds (No. 1207) out into small pieces. Mingle all well together with the hand for five minutes, and with the other hand drop in one gill of brandy. Have a round cake-mold holding two quarts; butter it lightly with a hair brush, and sprinkle in a little sugar. Drop a third of the preparation into the mold; spread over it two ounces of candied orange, shred into thin slices; then add half of the remaining preparation; spread on top of it two ounces of shred, candied citron

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