English Fruit Cake

• 1 lb. butter.
• 1 lb. light brown sugar.
• 9 eggs</

Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and beat thoroughly. Separate yolks from whites of eggs; beat yolks until thick and lemon colored, whites until stiff and dry, and add to first mixture. Then add milk, fruit, and flour mixed and sifted with mace, cinnamon, and soda. Put in deep pans, cover with buttered paper, steam three hours, and bake one and one-half hours in a slow oven, or bake four