Preparation info
  • Yield: Approximately

    3½ to 4 Pounds

    of Confection.
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

  • About

This recipe, also known as “raisin cheese,” comes from a clipping in the manuscript cookbook of Mary H. Winebrenner, second wife of Reverend John Winebrenner, founder of the Church of God in 1820. Mrs. Winebrenner was well known throughout the middle states for her culinary accomplishments. And like her recipe for Gâteau de Pommes in the next chapter, this one certainly indicates a level of ability far above the average, one verging in fact