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Show A CHRISTMAS CAKE. <br><br> Two cups of brown sugar, two of butter or half lard, five of flour, one pound of raisins, one of currants, one scant pint of milk, four eggs, leaving out the white of one, half a cup of black molasses, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one of cloves, one of mace (all ground), two of baking powder; melt the butter a little, beat with it a little sugar and eggs, next add the molasses, still beating, the spices and raisins, chopped, and last of all the flour, in which the baking powder must have been sifted well with the milk. Bake in a moderate oven three hours, if one large cake is made. Stir confectioners' sugar into the white of egg, with the juice of half a lemon, as much as it will moisten to the consistency of a soft mortar; ice the cake with this, using a knife dipped in water to spread it. |