Fruit Pound Cake from The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets by William Woy

Fruit Pound Cake from The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets by William Woy

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I think Mrs. Bryan called this Fruit Pound Cake because, like pound cake, it was one of the recipes she used for making pyramids of cakes, a subject that I take up in chapter 8 under table centerpi...

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup candied citron
  • 1½ cups currants
  • 1½ cups white raisins
  • 2 cups peach brandy, or 1 cup brandy and 1 cup amaretto
  • ½ pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter
  • 2 cups superfine sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • ¼ cup white wine
  • 2 tablespoons rosewater
  • 1 tablespoon grated nutmeg
  • 1½ teaspoons ground mace
  • 1½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1¾ cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups sliced blanched almonds
  • Brandy

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