1599 English wedding cake

Name: English wedding cake (Anglijskij svadebnyj pirog)
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ½ zolotnik, or 1 teaspoon, cinnamon; ½ zolotnik, or 35, cloves; a little ginger; ⅙ lb, or ½ glass almonds; ⅓ lb eggs, or 3 medium eggs; ¼ lb, or ½ glass, sugar; ½ zolotnik, or 1 very small, nutmeg; ⅔ lb, or 2 glasses, currants; ½ lb butter; ¼ glass red wine*; ¼ glass Malaga; ½ spoon butter to grease the paper; ⅓ lb, or 1 glass, flour

Anglijskij svadebnyj pirog

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Gift to Young Housewives

By Elena Molokhovets

Published 1992

About

Ingredients

Ingredients (for 6 persons)

½ lb butter
¼ lb, or ½ glass, sugar

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Beat 1 lb butter until white. Also beat until white ½ lb sugar and ⅔ lb eggs (the eggs must be we