Election Cake.
Thirty quarts flour, 10 pound butter, 14 pound sugar, 12 pound raisins, 3 doz eggs, one pint wine, one quart brandy, 4 ounces cinnamon, 4 ounces fine colander seed, 3 ounces ground alspice; wet the flour with milk to the consistence of break over night, adding one quart yet; the next morning work the butter and guar together for half and hour, which will render the cake much lighter and whiter; when it has rise light work in every other ingredient ecvept the plumbs, which owkr in when going in the oven.
Independence Cake.
Twenty pound flour, 15 pound sugar, 10 pound butter, 4 dozen eggs, one quart wine, 1 quart brandy, 1 ounce nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, mace, of each 3 ounces, two pound citron, currants and raisins 5 pound each, 1 quart yeast; when baked, frost with loaf sugar; dress with box and gold leaf.
New Years Cake.
Take 14 pound flour, to which add one pint milk, and one quart yeast, put these together over night, and let it lie in the sponge till morning, 5 pound sugar and 4 pound butter, dissolve these together, 6 eggs well beat, and caraway seed; put the whole together, and when light bake them in cakes, similar to breakfast biscuit, 20 minutes.
American Cookery
Amelia Simmons
1796
Albany
New York
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