"carolina Housewife" Wedding Cake Of 1850 Recipe

"carolina Housewife" Wedding Cake Of 1850 Recipe

Yield: 1 big cake
Recipe by luhu.jp

Ingredients:
20 lbs: Butter,
20 lbs: Sugar,
20 lbs: Flour,
20 lbs: Raisins,
40 lbs: Currants,
12 lbs: Citron,
20 each: Nutmegs,
1 ounce: Mace,
4 ounce: Cinnamon,
20 each: Glasses wine,
20 each: Glasses brandy,
10 each: Eggs to the pound,

Directions:
Add cloves to your taste. If you wish it richer, add 2 pounds of
currants, and 1 pound of raisins to each pound of flour.
[JP- The above is the complete text of the recipe.]

From Miss Mary Deas Ravenel in _Charleston Receipt Book_ The Junior
League of Charleston 1950 1993 edition, 28th printing ISBN
0-9607854-2-6 Typos by Jeff Pruett
Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 05-26-95


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