Old Hartford Election Cake

Ingredients

• Four pounds of dried and sifted flour
• two pounds of butter
• two pounds of sugar
• three gills of distillery yeast
• half an ounce of nutmeg
• two pounds of fruit
• A quart of milk

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter very fine into the flour, add half the sugar, then the yeast, then half the milk, hot in winter, blood warm in summer, then the eggs, well beaten, and the remainder of the milk.

2. 2

   Beat it well, and let it stand to rise all night.

3. 3

   Beat well in the morning, adding the sugar and the spice.

4. 4

   Let it rise three or four hours, till very light.

5. 5

   Put the cake in buttered pans, and put in the fruit as directed previously.

6. 6

   If you wish it richer, add a pound of citron.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD HARTFORD ELECTION CAKE — 100 years old. Four pounds of dried and sifted flour, two pounds of butter, two pounds of sugar, three gills of distillery yeast, or twice the quantity of home-brewed, half an ounce of nutmeg, and two pounds of fruit. A quart of milk

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