Christmas cake
- Course: Various Desserts Cakes
- Yield:
Christmas cake ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 c Good butter
- 1 3⁄4 c Brown sugar
- 16 Eggs
- 4 lb Raisins
- 4 lb currants
- 1 lb Mixed peel
- -cut fine
- 2 lb flour
- 1 lb Almonds, blanched
- -cut fine
- 2 Nutmeg, grated
- -same of mace
- 1⁄2 pt brandy
- 1 T lemon essence
Cooking Christmas cake
1. Directions: cream butter and sugar well, add the beaten yolks, then the stiffly beaten egg whites.
2. Put all fruits and nuts together, rub with some of the 2 pounds of flour.
3. Beat well, then add nuts and brandy.
4. I make just half of this recipe and i put in a very small teaspoon of soda.
5. Bakei slowly.
6. This is a transcription from my grandma dixon"s handwritten recipe book.
7. It dates from the first quarter of this century.
8. liz parkinson.
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