Recipes from American Cookery by Amelia Simmons (1796)
CAKES
Plumb Cake
Mix one pound currants, nutmeg, mace and cinnamon one quarter of an ounce each, 12 eggs, one quart milk, and a sufficient quantity of raisins, 6 pound of flour, 3 pound of sugar, 2 pound of butter and 1 pint yeast.
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