Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• 5 pounds of flour
• 5 pounds of sugar
• 5 pounds of butter
• 5 pounds of raisins
• 5 pounds of citron
• 10 pounds of currants
• ½ pint of molasses
• ½ pint of brandy
• 35 eggs
• 1½ ounces of mace
• 1½ ounces of cinnamon
• the same of cloves
• 2 ounces of nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon of soda

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake at least 2 hours in deep buttered tins; test cakes to ensure they are well done before taking them from the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wedding Cakes to Order Orders Promptly Filled and Delivered to any part of the City 719 Fourth Street, San Rafael H. A, Go r ley & Co. Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Etc. DRY GOODS EMPORIUM 807 FOURTH ST. Cochrane-McNear Bldg., San Rafael Telephone Red 1662 148 ADVERTISEMENTS THE WORLD IS YOU EVERY MORNING KQ. Smith 811 4th St. SAN RAFAEL JUST SO SHOULD BE A CUP or SMITH'S COFFEE ENSIBLE Housewives pay CASH for Clean, Fresh * Groceries. Foolish ones pay BIG BILLS. M GST Grocers are Sane. Not. Some Customers are IT costs more to sell cheap, poor Goods than it does First Class. H 'HE Grocer who wants business and can't get it, usually starts a sample room in the rear. AVE you ever bought "Wishy-washy" Coffee or Tea* sold to you in a Handsome Package? A A Goods Baking Powder (Pure) Bird Seed ' ' Gravel Blueing, tins, big Cream Tartar, tins Carolina Rice (small) Corn Starch (Popcorn) COFFEE (Fresh) always Currants Citron Peel Clothes Pins Dried Fruits Fairy Soap Gold Dust Gloss Starch Glass Rolling Pins Grand 14 as. Spanish Pepper Jellies and Jams, made at home Laundry Soap, all kinds Meat or Poultry Seasoning Olive Oil (Ricci) Extracts, XXX Concentrated, Orange Marmalade, Nuts (all kinds), Raspberry Syrup, Perfumes Spices, Pure' (tins or bulk) TEAS '30 GRADES AND VARIETIES Send Six Bits in Stamps for 1 lb., Post Paid Qkes, (ookies, J)o(igl]n(its ETC. RULES FOR CAKE. Sift cream of tartar, baking powder and soda dry witb the flour. Never dissolve soda in a liquid as it is almost sure to leave streaks,. and after it is dissolved the mixture cannot be as light as when fer- mentation takes place in the dough. When soda and sour milk are used always add a little baking pow- der, and the mixture will be far lighter and will not taste of soda "as- it is almost sure to do if sufficient soda is used to make very light. 1 level teaspoon of soda to 1 cup of sour milk is a good rule. Beat eggs separately. Dredge fruit with flour to prevent its sinking, and always add it last. Bake cake slowly at first, increasing the heat of the oven when well' risen. Layer and sponge calces require a quicker oven than loaf or fruit cake. Sponge ginger bread requires a slow oven. Cookies re- quire a quick oven. WEDDING CAKE— Mrs. Daniel Bradford. (This cake was used at Mrs. Bradford's wedding many years ago.) 5 pounds of flour, 5 pounds of sugar, 5 pounds of butter, 5 pounds- of raisins, 5 pounds of citron, 10 pounds of currants, % pint of molas- ses, % pint of brandy, 35 eggs, 1% ounces of mace, 1% ounces of cin- namon, the same of cloves, 2 ounces of nutmeg, 1 teaspoon of soda

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