Christmas Cake

Recipes Ingredients:

1 1/2 c Good butter
2 lb Flour
1 3/4 c Brown sugar
1 lb Almonds,blanched
16 Eggs
-cut fine
4 lb Raisins
2 Nutmeg,grated
4 lb Currants
-same of mace
1 lb Mixed peel
1/2 pt Brandy
-cut fine 1
tb Lemon essence

Recipe Instructions:

Directions: Cream Butter and Sugar well, add the beaten yolks, then the stiffly beaten Egg whites. Put all fruits and nuts together, rub with some of the 2 pounds of flour. Beat well, then add nuts and brandy. I make just half of this recipe and I put in a very small teaspoon of soda. Bake slowly. This is a transcription from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe book. It dates from the first quarter of this century. Liz Parkinson