Rich Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 Lb. Butter
• 14 Ozs. Flour
• 1/2 Lb. Castor Sugar
• 1/2 Lb. Sultana Raisins
• 6 Eggs
• 1/2 Lb. Orange Peel

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter and sugar to a cream; add eggs singly, and without being beaten; mix in the flour gradually; last add the peel and the raisins, which should be washed and dried; bake in a moderate oven for about an hour and a half.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Evans' recipe cookery book (1900), page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

; § lb. castor sugar ; i teaspoonful orange flower water. Method — Blanch almonds and chop very fine ; beat yolks of two eggs and white of one ; put almonds, eggs, and sugar in saucepan ; stir over gentle fire till reduced to paste ; add flavouring ; spread over cake and stand till cold. For Icing.— Ingredients — i lb. icing sugar ; \ teaspoonful lemon juice ; 2 eggs (whites only). Method— Pass sugar through fine hair sieve ; add lemon juice ; thoroughly beat whites of eggs and stir in gradually till sugar is moistened ; stir to thick paste ; beat from ten to fifteen minutes ; dip knife in hot water and spread smoothly over cake ; decorate with fancy tubes and bag. 182 FRUIT CAKE. Ingredients. i Lb. Flour. J Lb. Sultanas. i Lb. Castor Sugar. 4 Eggs. 6 Ozs. Butter. A Little Method. Mix flour and baking powder ; rub in butter ; add sugar \ beat eggs with milk; mix thoroughly with dry ingredients as previously mixed ; add fruit ; stir well ; put in cake tin lined with well-buttered paper ; bake in moderate oven for about two hours. 6 Ozs. Currants. 2 Ozs. Mixed Peel. | Teaspoonful Salt, i Teaspoonful Baking Powder. Milk. i83 RICH FRUIT CAKE. Ingredients. | Lb. Butter. 14 Ozs. Flour. J Lb. Castor Sugar. § Lb. Sultana Raisins. 6 Eggs

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