Name: Queen Alexandra’s Birthday Cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 1 lb filleted almonds; 2 lb sultanas well washed and dried; 1 tablespoonful mace; 1 tablespoonful cloves; 1 tablespoonful nutmeg.; 2 tablespoonfuls cinnamon; 3½ lb butter; 1½ tablespoonfuls allspice; ½ bottle brandy; ½ bottle rum; and the following spices mixed well together; grated rind of 8 lemons; 4 lb Lisbon sugar; 5 lb flour; 6 lb currants; 3 lb Cedrat peel all cut small; 1½ lb lemon peel; 1½ lb orange peel; 40 eggs well beaten

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Broths to Bannocks

By Catherine Brown

Published 1990

About

This makes a 36 lb. cake and was made regularly at Buckingham Palace from 1902–10.

Ingredients

3½ lb butter
4 lb Lisbon sugar
5 lb

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian
Birth day
Scotland

Method

Mix together dry ingredients, then stir in eggs, brandy and rum. Bake for 11 hours in medium oven. Top with almond paste and sugar icing with orange-flower water flavouring.

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