Wedding Cake

Ingredients

• One dozen eggs
• two pounds currants rolled in a little flour
• three pounds raisins
• half pound almonds sliced
• one tablespoon cinnamon and mace
• four nutmegs
• two wine glasses of coffee
• one ounce of rosewater
• half pound candied lemon
• half pound citron peel cut fine
• one pound of flour
• one pound powdered sugar
• one pound of butter
• one spoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Stir one pound of flour and one pound powdered sugar.

2. 2

   Mix to a cream with one pound of butter.

3. 3

   Then add all the spices, fruit, and coffee.

4. 4

   Stir very hard and bake three hours in a slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Toronto Cook Book (1915) by Powell, E. J. Mrs.,d.b. 1853, page 63. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Wedding Cake One dozen eggs, two pounds currants rolled in a little flour, three pounds raisins, half pound almonds sliced, one tablespoon cinnamon and mace, four nutmegs, two wine glasses of coffee, one ounce of rosewater, half pound candied lemon, half pound citron peel cut fine. Stir one pound of flour in a dish and one pound powdered sugar. Mix to a cream with one pound of butter. Then add all the spices, fruit and coffee Also one spoonful of soda

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