The 'Sure to Rise' Cookery Book

Fruit Cake

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Fruit Cake.

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

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Title: The ‘Sure to Rise’ Cookery Book

Publication details: T. J. Edmonds, 1914, Christchurch

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