New-year’s Cake

Ingredients

• Cream 1 1/2 lbs. of butter
• 1/4 lbs. of powdered sugar
• Beat fifteen eggs
• 1 lbs. of sifted flour
• three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• half a teacupful of molasses
• 2 lbs. of finely chopped almonds
• 2 lbs. of seeded raisins
• 1 lb. of sliced citron

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and powdered sugar together.

2. 2

   Beat eggs and add them, along with sifted flour and baking powder.

3. 3

   Grate lemons into molasses and add to the batter, along with chopped almonds, raisins, and citron.

4. 4

   Turn into a cake mould and bake for two hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 67. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

New-year’s Cake. — Cream i x/z lbs. of butter and I /4 lbs. of powdered sugar; beat well together. Beat fif- teen eggs, and add, with i lbs. of sifted flour and three teaspoonfuls of baking - powder ; grate two lemons in half a teacupful of molasses and add to the batter, with 2 lbs. of finely chopped almonds, 2 lbs. of seeded raisins, and i lb. of sliced citron.

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