Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound butter
• 3 pounds seeded raisins, cut in pieces
• 1 pound brown sugar
• 12 eggs
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 pound flour
• 4 teaspoons cinnamon
• 4 teaspoons allspice
• 114 teaspoons mace
• 1 nutmeg, grated
• V4 teaspoon soda
• 1 tablespoon hot water
• 1 cup grape juice or brandy
• 1% pounds citron, thinly sliced and cut in strips
• 1 pound currants
• V% preserved lemon rind
• Y% preserved orange rind
• 4 squares chocolate, melted

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter, add sugar gradually, and beat thoroughly.

2. 2

   Beat egg yolks until thick and lemon-colored.

3. 3

   Add to first mixture, then add flour mixed and sifted with spices, fruit dredged with flour, lemon rind and orange rind finely chopped, grape juice or brandy, chocolate, and egg whites beaten until stiff.

4. 4

   Just before putting into pans, add soda dissolved in hot water.

5. 5

   Cover pans with buttered paper.

6. 6

   If to be steamed, cover loosely with buttered paper, and tie paper firmly in place.

7. 7

   Then steam 3 hours and bake 14 hours in slow oven (300° F.).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 276. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WEDDING CAKE 1 pound butter 3 pounds seeded raisins, cut 1 pound brown sugar in. pieces 12 eggs 2 pounds Sultana raisins 1 cup molasses 1% pounds citron, thinly sliced 1 pound flour and cut in strips 4 teaspoons cinnamon 1 pound currants 4 teaspoons allspice V% preserved lemon rind 114 teaspoons mace Y% preserved orange rind 1 nutmeg, grated 1 cup grape juice or brandy V4 teaspoon soda 4 squares chocolate, melted 1 tablespoon hot water

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