Butter Cake

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (10)
Instructions (5)
  1. Take a dish of butter, and beat it like cream with your hands.
  2. Add two pounds of fine sugar well beat, and three pounds of flour well dried, and mix them in with the butter.
  3. Add twenty-four eggs, leaving out half the whites.
  4. Beat all together for an hour.
  5. Just as you are going to put it into the oven, put in a quarter of an ounce of mace, a nutmeg beat, a little sack or brandy, and seeds or currants, just as you please.
Original Text
You must take a dish of butter, and beat it like cream with your hands, two pounds of fine sugar well beat, three pounds of flour well dried, and mix them in with the butter, twenty-four eggs, leave out half the whites, and then beat all together for an hour. Just as you are going to put it into the oven, put in a quarter of an ounce of mace, a nutmeg beat, a little sack or brandy, and seeds or currants, just as you please.
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