No. 112 Queen Cake
Two cupfuls of butter, 2½ cupfuls of sugar, 1½ pints of flour, 8 eggs, ½ teaspoonful baking powder, 1 wineglass each of wine, brandy, and cream, ½ teaspoonful of the extract of nutmeg, rose, and lemon, 1 cupful of dried currants washed and picked, 1 cupful of raisins, stoned and cut in two; 1 cupful of citron cut in small, thin slices; rub the butter and sugar to a very light cream; add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 5 minutes between each addition; add the flour, sifted, with the powder, the raisins, currants, wine, brandy, cream, citron, and extracts; mix into a consistent batter, and bake carefully in a papered cake-tin in a moderate, steady oven 1½ hours.