Rich Bride-Cake

Name: Rich Bride-Cake
Ingredients: four pounds of fine flour; four pounds of sweet, fresh butter; two pounds of white sugar; six eggs to every pound of flour; half an ounce of mace; half an ounce of nutmeg; four pounds of currants; four pounds of raisins; two pounds of citron

From The universal cookery book, 1887

Presented as published in 1887. 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 universal cookery book (1887) by Gertrude Strohm, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rich Bride-Cake. Take four pounds of fine flour, dry it ; four pounds of sweet, fresh butter, beaten to a cream ; and two pounds of white sugar ; add six eggs to every pound of flour ; mace and nutmeg, half an ounce each, pound them fine. Wash through several waters, and pick clean, four pounds of currants ; spread them on a thickly folded cloth to dry ; stone and chop four pounds of raisins, cut two pounds of citron

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