FRUIT CAKE
- ½ lb. (1 cup) butter
- 1½ lbs. (3 cups) sugar
- 6 eggs
- 1 pint (2 cups) sour cream
- 1 teaspoonful soda
- 1¾ lbs. (7 cups) flour
- 1 grated nutmeg
- ½ teaspoonful powdered mace
- 1 lb. currants
- 1 lb. Sultana raisins
- ½ lb. chopped citron peel
- 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoonful rose extract
- ¼ teaspoonful salt
Cream the butter and sugar together, add gradually the yolks of the eggs well beaten, the soda mixed with the cream, flour, salt, spices, grated rind and strained lemon juice, the chopped citron peel, currants, rose extract, raisins, and the whites of eggs beaten stiffly.
Mix carefully, turn into a large buttered casserole, and bake for two and a half hours in a steady oven.