If it is baked in a tin or iron pan, butter the pan, line the bottom and sides with very thick white or brown paper, butter the paper well, and pour in the mixture. Bake in a moderate oven five hours.
As many object to the use of wine and brandy, this cake may be finely flavored with a glass of rose-water instead; or a little lemon juice and a portion of the rind of the lemon grated in it.
NEW YORK PLUM CAKE.
363. One pound of butter,
One pound of sugar,
One pound of flour,
One pound of citron, cut in small thin slices,
Eight eggs,
Two pounds of raisins, seeded,
Two pounds of currants,
A quarter of an ounce of ground cinnamon,
A quarter of an ounce of ground cloves,
A quarter of an ounce of ground mace,
A quarter of an ounce of grated nutmeg,
One wine-glassful of brandy.
Slice the citron, pick, wash and dry the currants, seed the raisins and mix the fruit together, and dredge over it as much flour as will adhere to it. Prepare the spice. Stir the butter and sugar till it is smooth and light. Beat the eggs very light and stir them into the butter and sugar. Add the flour and fruit gradually; beat the batter till the fruit is thoroughly mixed with it, then add slowly the spice and liquor. Beat the mixture very hard for ten or fifteen minutes. Line your pans with two thicknesses of stout white paper, which should be well buttered, pour in the batter, and bake from four to five hours.
Rose-water and lemon may be used to flavor it instead of the liquor. A wine-glass of rose-water and as much lemon as to give it a taste.
POUND CAKE, No. 1.
364. One pound of flour,
One pound of sugar,
One pound and a quarter of butter,
Ten eggs,
One nutmeg grated,
One wine-glass of rose-water.
Beat the butter and sugar together; when it is perfectly light stir in the eggs, which must have been whisked to a thick froth; add the flour, then the nutmeg and rose-water. Beat the whole for a quarter of an hour. Butter your pan, line it with paper, which should be well buttered, and pour in the mixture. Bake it for three hours in a moderate oven. When the edges of the cake appear to shrink from the sides of the pan the cake will be done.