A cheaper Fruit Cake
Take four pounds of flour, three of butter, three of sugar, two of
raisins, one of currants, two dozen eggs, an ounce of mace, three
nutmegs, and a half pint of brandy; if you want it dark, put in a little
molasses; mix the ingredients together, as the above fruit cake, and
bake it from two to three hours.
Fruit or Plum Cake.
Dry and sift a pound of flour, roll a pound of sugar, and beat it with a
pound of butter, and the yelks of ten eggs well beaten; wash and dry a
pound of currants and rub them in flour; stone and cut half a pound of
raisins, and mix in with a glass of rose brandy, and a grated nutmeg, or
mace; when all the rest are well mixed together, beat up the whites of
the eggs, and add them; bake it an hour and a half.
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