Wedding Cake
From Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .., 1904
Not recommended for invalids, but has been said to cure indigestion.
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This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 1. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
wedding-cake, which had been a great dis- tress to him, was all eaten up. His own stomach could bear nothing rich, and he could never believe other people to be different than himself." — JANX Austen (** Emma"). ALTHOUGH weddingf-cake can hardly be recommended to in- valids, I once heard of its cur- ing a severe attack of indigestion, a statement the verification of which I leave to the skeptical. The following rule has descended from generation to generation of a long-lived family : Twelve eggs, one pound of butter, one pound of flour, one pound of citron, three pounds of raisins, three pounds of currants, a pound and a half of brown sugar, a pint of molasses, half a pint of brandy, a teaspoonful of sal- eratus, one ounce of mace, one ounce of cinnamon, half an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of allspice, two grated nutmegs
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