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Fruit Cake (Wedding Cake)

Ingredients

• 1 pound of butter
• 1 pound of sugar
• 12 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon of mace
• 1/2 teaspoon of cloves
• 1/4 pound of almonds pounded
• 2 pounds of raisins (seeded and chopped)
• 3 pounds of currants (carefully cleaned)
• 1 pound of citron (shredded very fine)
• 1/4 pound of orange peel (chopped very fine)
• 1 pint of brandy

Instructions

Rub butter and sugar to a cream. Soak prepared fruit in brandy overnight. Add all to the dough and put in the stiffly-beaten whites last. Bake in a very slow oven for several hours, in cake pans lined with buttered paper. When cold wrap in cloths dipped in brandy and put in earthen jars. If baked in gas oven have light very low. Keep oven the same temperature for four or five hours.

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Source

The International Jewish Cook Book (1919).