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When all these ingredients are prepared and the cake tin buttered and lined with
paper – - cream butter and sugar, separate whites and yolks or eggs beat both
separately add flour and eggs by degrees beating all the time then currants
candied peel almonds cut up finely and brandy and spices and a little salt.

For the almond icing
½ lb sweet almonds
A few bitter ones
6 oz sugar
white of one egg Well whisk the eggs stir in the sugar by degrees and lastly the
ground almonds with a fork.
The cake was tested first by members of the history society and the remains were
consumed two days later by the members of the Pop in Place

I chose to do the “Christmas cake’
Recipe as in Book with name of sender - Miss Dinah Harris, Sherrington

Christmas Cake
Put ½ lb flour stir teaspoonful salt and one teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat ¼
lb butter to a cream and then beat in the well whisked yolks of two eggs and one Dorset Property Care
teacupful of milk warm. Six oz of sugar 1 lb currants 2 oz of candied peel ¼ of a
nutmeg , the grated rind of half a lemon then stir in quickly ½ lb ground rice and Allan Slater
last of all the whites of two eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Put into a tin lined with Based in Briantspuddle
buttered paper and bake in a rather hot oven till done. When nearly cold ice  Services
and ornament as you please  Building maintenance
To be honest I am not a good cake baker. I tried to mix it exactly as in recipe and  General joinery
did end up with an odd looking curdled mixture. Need to whisk eggs separately. I  Garden maintenance
think when I do this again I would start with butter and sugar. Then add whisked  Garden landscaping
egg yolks and milk then flour then fruit and lastly whisked egg whites. I used a 10
inch tin cooked for one hour on 160 fan oven. Probably a fraction over cooked.  Kitchens
The cake turned out well, a bit crumbly and tasted of citrus. It reminded me very  Man and digger hire
much of fruit cakes from my childhood. Slightly gritty texture from the ground rice  Waste carrier licence
but lasted at least a week wrapped in cling film.

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