Miss Hustler's Christmas Cake (Rich)

Ingredients

• Two pounds of butter
• Half a pound of candied peel
• Two pounds of castor sugar
• Half a pound of almonds
• Two pounds of currants
• Two pounds of flour
• Two pounds of sultanas
• One glass of brandy
• One pound and a half of raisins
• Twenty eggs

Method

1. 1

   Clean and pick the sultanas and currants, cut the peel up fine, stone the raisins and chop them fine, blanch the almonds and cut them in fine strips, and beat up the eggs in a basin.

2. 2

   Beat the butter to a cream, add the sugar, and beat again until quite thin and white; then mix in by degrees the eggs and flour, a little of each at a time; add the fruit and brandy, and mix all well together.

3. 3

   Put the mixture into a cake tin, greased and lined with three or four thicknesses of oiled paper.

4. 4

   Bake in a moderate oven for about six hours, placing the tin on sand, as you would a wedding cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 47. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MISS HUSTLER'S CHRISTMAS CAKE (Rich) Ingredients Two pounds of butter. Half a pound of candied peel. Two pounds of castor sugar. Half a pound of almonds. Two pounds of currants. Two pounds of flour. Two pounds of sultanas. One glass of brandy. One pound and a half of raisins. Twenty eggs

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