Mount Vernon Cake

12 ingredients
6 steps

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 lb. sugar
  • 1/2 lb. butter
  • 1 3/4 lb. flour
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 pt. sour cream
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1/2 lb. citron
  • 2 lemons (juice of 1 and rind of 2)
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • some mace
  • 1 lb. raisins
  • 1 lb. currants

Directions

  1. 1
    Cream butter and sugar; add the egg yolks, well beaten, then the cream and flour with spices alternately, then the well beaten egg whites.
  2. 2
    Last of all, the well floured fruit.
  3. 3
    Bake about 2 hours.
  4. 4
    Cover top first hour with buttered paper.
  5. 5
    This was probably baked in a brick oven at Mount Vernon.
  6. 6
    Have fun improvising.

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