Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• 2 pounds sugar — 4 cups.
• 1½ pounds butter — 3 cups.
• 12 eggs.
• 2 pounds flour — 8 cups.
• 8 tablespoons wine; same of brandy.
• 6 nutmegs ground or grated.
• 5 pounds raisins.
• 4 pounds currants.
• 2 pounds citron.

Method

1. 1

   Stone the raisins, wash and dry the currants, cut citron small, mix them and dust with a cup of flour.

2. 2

   Mix the first four ingredients as for pound cake, add liquors, nutmeg, and then the fruit.

3. 3

   Line the mould with buttered paper, wrap another paper around the outside, and bake for about three hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 284. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wedding Cake. 2 pounds sugar — 4 cups. 1 54 pounds butter — 3 cups. 12 eggs. 2 pounds flour — 8 cups. 8 taplespoons wine ; same of brandy. 6 nutmegs grcund or grated. 5 pounds raisins. 4 pounds currants. 2 pounds crtron.

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