Wedding Cake

Name: Wedding Cake
Ingredients: 24 large eggs; 5½ lb. currants; 2 lb. sultanas; 1–1½ lb. glacé cherries; rind and juice of 1 lemon; ½–1 lb. blanched, chopped almonds; 1½ gill rum or brandy or rum and brandy; 1½ gill rum or brandy or rum and brandy; ¼ teasp. salt; 3–3¼ lb. flour; 3 level teasp. ground mace; 3 level teasp. ground cinnamon; 1-½ teasp. baking-powder; 1 nutmeg (grated); 3 lb. castor sugar; 3 lb. butter; 1½ teasp. parisian essence or other gravy browning; 1½ teasp. parisian essence or other gravy browning

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

3–3¼ lb. flour
¼ teasp. salt
3 level teasp.

Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Prepare and line 3 cake-tins, one 12 in. diameter, one 8 in., and one 4 in. diameter.

Sift together flour,