CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE
Reader’s Inquiry Answered
A reader has asked that the Christmas cake recipe given in these columns last year be repeated, as she found the cuke a most delicious one. Here it is :—
ingredients: IJlb. flour, 11b. sugar, 11b. butter, 8 eggs, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful (bare) of baking powder, lib. sultanas, 11b. currants, Jib. chopped dates, Jib. seeded raisins, jib. glace cherries, Jib. almonds, Jib. chopped peel, J wineglass of brandy, J wineglass of sherry, essence of vanilla.
Method: Cream the butter and sugar and add the eggs one by one, unbeaten, and beat thoroughly until all the sugar is dissolved. Chop the almonds and mix all the fruit together well. Add the flour and fruit alternately to the creamed mixture and lastly add the brandy, sherry, and a few drops of vanilla essence, and beat all together well. Line the tin with four or six layers of greaseproof paper and pour iu the mixture. Bake m a moderate oven for five hours. In a gas stove have the oven really hot and place the cake in at No. 2 and do not open the oven for at least two hours.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 298, 3 December 1935, Page 11
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195CHRISTMAS CAKE RECIPE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 298, 3 December 1935, Page 11
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