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Recipe Groom's Cake (Cake)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 9 cups raisins, finely chopped
- 6 cups golden raisins
- 3 cups dried currants
- 1 1/2 pounds chopped candied citron
- 1/2 pound candied lemon peel
- 1/2 pound chopped candied orange peel
- 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 4 teaspoons ground allspice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground mace
- 2 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 2 cups butter
- 2 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
- 12 eggs, separated
- 1 cup brandy
- 4 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
- 1 cup molasses
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup hot water
Preparing/Cooking:
- In a large bowl, sift 3 cups flour with spices.
- In another bowl, mix raisins, sultana raisins, currants, citron, and citrus rinds; dredge with 1/3 cup flour.
- Stir raisin mixture into the flour.
- In a very large bowl, cream the butter or margarine.
- Beat in sugar, a small amount at a time.
- Add beaten egg yolks, flour mixture, brandy, chocolate and molasses.
- Beat egg whites until stiff, and fold them into the batter.
- Dissolve baking soda in hot water and stir gently into batter.
- Grease and flour 5 bread pans, and pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake at 275 degrees F (135 degrees C) for 4 hours.
- Cool.
- Cut into 275 to 300 slices; wrap each slice.
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