The 'Sure to Rise' Cookery Book

Fruit Cake

Fruit Cake.

  • 2 breakfastcups flour
  • ½ ℔. butter
  • ½ ℔. sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Edmonds' Baking Powder
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 ℔. currants
  • 4 ozs. almonds
  • ½ ℔. mixed peel

Mode.—Beat butter to a cream, add sugar gradually, then white of eggs (beaten 10 minutes), then yolks (beaten 10 minutes), then flour and other ingredients. Bake 2½ hours moderate oven.