Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 7 of 10 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Butter | 1 tbsp (14g) | 102 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Grape | 1/2 cup (76g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Nutmeg | 1 tsp ground (2.2g) | 12 |
| Brandy | not in our table | 0 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Cake | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- one pound flour
- one pound butter
- one pound sugar
- one wineglassful brandy
- one pound raisins
- one tablespoonful of hot water
- four pounds flour
- half pound butter
- one pint of yeast
- two cups milk
- one-half cupful of 1a 172
- a cupful of flour over them before putting them in the cake
- six eggs
- one small nutmeg
- one small teaspoonful soda
- half sugar
- four eggs
- nutmeg
Directions
One pound flour, one pound butter, one pound sugar, six eggs, one wineglassful brandy, one small nutmeg, one small teaspoonful soda, one pound raisins. Beat butter to a cream, add the flour, add the sugar powdered fine and stirred into the yolks of eggs ; then beat in the whites whipped to a stiff forth ; a glass of brandy, nutmeg grated, and the soda dissolved in one tablespoonful of hot water. Beat the whole together till it is light and creamy, then add the raisins, stoned and chopped. Strew a cupful of flour over them before putting them in the cake. Bake in tin lined with paper for one and a quarter hours.
F. S. C, England. SALEM ELECTION CAKE, 1 776.
Four pounds flour, one and a half sugar, half pound butter.
four eggs, spice to taste, one pint of yeast. (Two cups milk
and a cake compressed yeast is the modern equivalent to this
last item.) At night sift flour into bread pan; make in the
center a batter of the yeast and milk, with one-half cupful of 1a