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Pound Cake

Name: Pound Cake
Yield: 15 servings
Ingredients: a pound and a half of butter; two pounds and a quarter of flour; four pounds of currants; a pound and a half of sugar; three-quarters of a pound of mixed peel; half a pound of blanched almonds; fifteen eggs; a glass of brandy

From Recipes for the million, 1891

Serves 15

Rich cake.

Presented as published in 1891. 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 Recipes for the million (1891), page 179. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POUND CAKE, Ingredients for a Rich. — A pound and a half of butter, two pounds and a quarter of flour, four pounds of currants, a pound and a half of sugar, three-quarters of a pound of mixed peel, half a pound of blanched almonds, fifteen eggs, and, if approved of, a glass of brandy

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