The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1892-12-17
CHRISTMAS CAKES.

! age, and It has always been the
custom with the best Southern
housekeepeTs to make their Christ.
mas cakes several weeks in advance
of the holidays. The following
recipes are ! ong the best used;
Christmas Plum Cake.-Cream
one pound of butter aud one pound
of sugar together; add the beaten
yolks of eighteen eggs, one gill of
m0lasses, one pound of sifted -four,
SIX table-spOonfuls of 90 ,rse -four.
aud one wineglass of brandy; beat
all together ior five minutes. Add
three pounds of sreded raisins,
one pound of dried currants, halt
a pound each of almonds and
sliced citron, we'll Il iured, two
ounces of grated cocOanut, one ta.
ble-spOonful each of ground all
spice, mace, and cloves. and two
grated nutmegs; lastly, add the
beaten whites of the eggs. Mix
well, pour Ill one large or two
smaller cake monlds, and bake ia
a moderate oven for six hours; Orna-
ment when cold with fancy sugar.
plums and wreath of holly.
Christmas Black Cake. Cream
three pounds of brown sugar and
three pounds of butter together.
sft in three pounds of flour; bear
twenty eight eggs separately, and
add, with five pounds of seeded
raisins, four pou Ids Of dried eur.
rants, one pound of sliced citron,
one ounce each of cinnamon and
nutmeg, half an ounce of mace,
cloves, and all spice, with glass
of blackberry wine, Mix and b at
well. Turn into very large cake
mould, aud bake for six hours.
THIS cake will keep for years.
Christmas Cake "a creole) Take
a pound OF butter, pound Of pow
dered sugar, fifteen eggs, pound
of site flour, q pound aud half
OF raisins, halfa pound Of currants,
half a pound OF citrOn, hal Al
pound each Of can-dred cherries,
orange and lemon peel, one grated
nutmeg, half a tablespoonful each
Of ground cinnamon aud mace
teaspoonful eich Of ground cloves
aud ginger, TWO taDlc'spo lnfuls Of
rum, and the JUICE OF two lemons.
Seed the raiNins; wash aud dry
The currauts; slice the citron.
orange aud lemon peel thin; beat
the butter to "a cream; add the su.
gar; beat the eggs until very light,
aud add them to the butter and
sugar, then, gradually sift in
the tluur. Mix All the fruit t0getf-
er aud -four well Mix the spices
in the batter; add the fruli; mix
thoroughly; add the rum and lem
OH juice; beat again. Line a large
cake pan with CREASED paper, turn
in the ,tter, aud bake in very
slow oven for four hours. When
done remove carefully from the
pan; let col. Ice and ornament
the top with can dried cherries,
strawberries, or other small can
dried fruit.
New-Year's Cake.-Cream one
and half pounds OF butter aud
one and half pounds Of powder.
I'd sugar; beat well together. Be It
fifteen eggs. and add, with pound
and a half of sifted -four and three
teaspOonfuls of baking-pOwder;
CRATE two lemons in half teacup
of molasses and add the batter.
with two pounds Of finely chopped
almonds, two pounds of seeded |
raisins, and one pound Of sliced |
citron. Turn in IKE mould, and |
bake two hours in mode rate
oven.
Holiday Cake.-Blanch three.
quarters of a pound Of shelled al
monds, and slice in halves; ch op |
half pound of citron; mix them
together and roll in sifted -four;
add to six wellbeaten eggs and
three-quarters of pound of sugar;
mix we'll, and sifC in a pound of
-four. Butter long shallow cake
pans, put the batter in them, and
b Ike in a quick oven. When done,
take out, roll in sugar and finely
pounded almonds. Put away IN
tight Tin box, and these cakes will
keen for year.
White Fruit Cake'-Cream one
pound of butter aud one pound OF
powdered sugar together; add the
beaten yOlks of sixteen eggs. and
a pound of sifted -four with twn
tesspoonfdls Of baking-pDwder
Slice three pounds Of cltron,
blanch a ponnd Of almonds, and
CRATE one cocoanu'; adj to the IT.
Ter, with tine stlff4y beaten whites
OF the eggs. Line a cake pan with
CREASED paper, turn in the mixture
aud set in d moderate oven. Bak.
slowly for two hours; when cold.
ice with cocoannt frostlng. If kept
in close tin box, this cake will
keep two or three weeks.-Har.
per's B izar.