Wedding Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 2 pounds raisins stoned
• 2 pounds currants
• 1 pound sliced citron
• 1 pound butter
• 1 pound su- gar
• 2 tablespoons mace
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 pound browned flour
• 1 teaspoon soda in a little water
• 1 goblet sherry
• 1/2 goblet brandy
• 12 eggs
• 2 nut- megs

Directions

1. 2 pounds raisins stoned, 2 pounds currants, 1 pound sliced citron, a few figs cut in small pieces. Pour over this 1 goblet sherry and port wine, 1/2 goblet brandy or whiskey, let stand over night and in morning pour on what liquor has not soaked into fruit, 1 pound butter, 1 pound su- gar, yolks 12 eggs, 2 tablespoons mace, 1 tablespoon cinnamon. 2 nut- megs, 1 pound browned flour and whites of 12 eggs. Dissolve 1 teaspoon soda in a little water, add just before putting in fruit.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

Counts 7 of 10 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.