Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• nine eggs
• one pound of butter beaten to a cream
• one pound of sugar
• one teacupful of molasses
• nutmegs grated, or ground mace, one ounce
• one teaspoonful of ground allspice
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• one gill of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Beat the mixture well.

2. 2

   Prepare currants and raisins, strew flour over them, and mix with the cake.

3. 3

   Line round tin pans with buttered paper, fill with mixture, and bake in a moderate oven for an hour and a half or two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 140. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wedding Cake. — One pound of flour, nine eggs, the whites and yolks beaten separately, one pound of butter beaten to a cream, one pound of sugar, one teacupful of molasses, nutmegs grated, or ground mace, one ounce, one teaspoonful of ground allspice, one teaspoonful of cinnamon

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