Christmas cake
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | cup | Good butter |
| 1¾ | cup | Brown sugar |
| 16 | Eggs | |
| 4 | pounds | Raisins |
| 4 | pounds | Currants |
| 1 | pounds | Mixed peel cut fine |
| 2 | pounds | Flour |
| 1 | pounds | Almonds,blanched cut fine |
| 2 | Nutmeg,grated same of mace | |
| ½ | pint | Brandy |
| 1 | tablespoon | Lemon essence |
Directions
Directions: Cream butter and sugar well, add the beaten yolks, then the stiffly beaten egg whites. Put all fruits and nuts together, rub with some of the 2 pounds of flour. Beat well, then add nuts and brandy. I make just half of this recipe and I put in a very small teaspoon of soda. Bake slowly. This is a transcription from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe book. It dates from the first quarter of this century.
Liz Parkinson