Plum Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of butter
• 1 pound of granulated sugar
• 1 pound of flour
• 1 dozen eggs
• 1% pounds of plums
• 3 pounds of seeded raisins
• 1 pound of currants
• % pound of citron
• 1 coffee cup of mixed spices
• 1% pounds of blanched almonds
• 1% pounds of candied fruit
• The juice of 2 lemons
• the juice of 2 oranges
• 1 coffee cup of golden syrup
• 1 champagne glass of good rum
• 1 champagne glass French brandy

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar together; add the yolks that have been beaten; spices and liquor; then the whites beaten stiff.

2. 2

   Flour your fruit from the pound of flour.

3. 3

   Grease the mold and put a piece of white paper at the bottom, sift in flour.

4. 4

   Pour in the mixture by degrees, putting the split almonds in layers.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Plum Cake. One pound of butter, 1 pound of granulated sugar, 1 pound of flour, 1 dozen eggs, whites and yolk^ beaten separately, V/^ pounds of plums, 3 pounds of seeded raisins, 1 pound of currants after they have been cleaned, % pound of citron cut. in thin slices, 1 coffee cup of mixed spices, cinnamon and nutmeg, 1% pounds of blanched almonds sliced, 1% pounds of candied fruit cut in small pieces, cherries, apricots or peaches are the best, but do not cut the cher- ries. The juice of 2 lemons and the juice of 2 oranges, 1 coffee cup of golden syrup, 1 champagne glass of good rum, 1 champagne glass French brandy

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