Patriot Cake

Ingredients

• Flour I pound.
• Sugar I pound.
• Raisins i pound.
• Butter one-half pound.
• Cream one'half pint.
• Wine ^ pint.
• Brandy J^ pint.
• Eggs 4.
• Soda I tea-spoonful.

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Butter one-half pound. White of 1 5 eggs. Baking-powder 6 tea-spoonfuls. 1 88 DOMESTIC GUIDE. Thoroughly mix the flour and baking-powder by sifting, and then cream the flour with the butter. Now, having beaten the eggs and thoroughly mixed them with the sugar, mix all, and bake in a moderate oven. HONEY CAKE. Melt I cup of butter and mix it with honey 2 cups. Ginger i table-spoonful. Nutmeg I. Dissolve a heaping tea-spoonful of saleratus in a cup of water, add to the mixture. Then flour un- til stiff enough to roll out, and bake the same as ginger-bread. WEDDING CAKE. Flour 4 pounds. Butter 4 pounds. Sugar 8 pounds. Citron i pound. English currants 4 pounds. Raisins 3 pounds. Nutmeg I ounce. Lemons 4. Cream I pint. Eggs 30. Saleratus one-half table-spoonful. Work the butter and sugar to a cream, add the beaten eggs, grated nutmeg, prepared fruit, chopped lemons, cream and saleratus, and then the sifted flour. Bake in large or small pans, as pre- ferred. baker's division. 189 MRS. PRIDE'S WEDDING CAKE. Butter I pound. Sugar i^ pounds. Flour I pound. Eggs 12. Rasins seeded, chopped and floured, 3 pounds. English currants washed, dried and floured 3, pounds. Citron cut thin and small i pound. Madeira wine 2 ounces. Brandy 4 ounces. Rose water i ounce. Grated nutmegs 2. Finely ground cinnamon 2 tea-spoonfuls. Mace finely ground i tea-spoonful. Cloves finely ground i tea-spoonful. Currant jelly well beaten i pint. Bake about 4 hours. in moderate oven. Follow general directions of No. 2 above. FRENCH LOAF CAKE. Sugar I pound. Butter ^ pound. Flour one-half pound. Eggs 8. Milk 2 table-spoonfuls. Soda J^ tea-spoonful. One good sized lemon grated and chopped. Mix the sugar and butter, then the yolks, then the whites, then the lemon and flour, and lastly the soda and milk, having been mixed, are put in. 190 DOMESTIC GUIDE. PATRIOT CAKE. Flour I pound. Sugar I pound. Raisins i pound. Butter one-half pound Cream one'half pint. Wine ^ pint. Brandy J^ pint Eggs 4. Soda I tea-spoonful.

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.