Pound Cake

Name: Pound Cake
Ingredients: one pound butter; one pound sugar; eight eggs; one pound cleaned currants; one pound raisins, chopped; one-fourth pound each candied citron; one-fourth pound each lemon; one-fourth pound each orange; one pound flour well shifted; one teaspoon each of nutmeg grated; one teaspoon each of cinnamon; one teaspoon each of allspice

From The National home cook book, 1900

If made while eggs are reasonable it will be found economical, as it keeps a long time.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE (English)—Take .oone pound butter, one © pound sugar, eight eggs, one pound cleaned currants, one ~ pound raisins, chopped; one-fourth pound each candied cit- ron, lemon, orange, one pound flour well shifted, one teas= poon each of nutmeg grat

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