Recipe for the Bride Cake

Name: Recipe for the Bride Cake
Total time: 36 min
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: nutmeg ½ oz.; eggs 32; currants 4 lb. (picked and dried well); sweet almonds, blanched and cut lengthwise very thin 1 lb.; Fine flour, well dried, 4 lb.; fresh butter 4 lb; loaf sugar, pounded and sifted fine, 2 lb.; mace ½ oz.; candied orange peel 1 lb. shredded; citron 1 lb. shredded; brandy ½ pint (8 liquid oz.).; candied lemon peel 1 lb. shredded

This was given by the Misses Hope, Henfryn, Reading

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Fine flour, well dried, 4 lb.
fresh butter 4 lb
loaf sugar

Europe
United Kingdom
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Work the butter with your hand to a cream.
Beat in your sugar for 15 minutes.
Beat the whites of the eggs to a very strong froth.
Mix them with your sugar and butter.
Beat the yolks for 30 minutes at least.
Add them.
Then put in your flour, mace and nutmeg, keep beating it well until your oven i