This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
2 pounds sugar - 4 cups.
2 pounds flour - 8 cups.
8 taplespoons wine; same of brandy.
6 nutmegs ground or grated.
5 pounds raisins.
4 pounds currants.
2 pounds crtron.
Stone the raisins, wash and dry the currants, cut citron small, mix them and dust with a cup of flour.
Mix the first four ingredients together as it for pound cake, add the liquors, nutmeg, and then the fruit.
Line the mould with buttered paper, and wrap another paper around the outside and tie it with twine. Bake the cake about three hours.
Made 1 large cake in a 6-qt milk pan, weighs 14 pounds, and I small cake 4 pounds. Cost: sugar @ 8, 16; butter @ 20, 30; eggs 15; flour a31/2 8; liquors 25; nutmegs 3; raisins @ 11, 55; currants @ 7, 28; citron @ 25, 50.
 
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