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Show ' i i ! ii i ii FOR PERFECT WEDDING CAKE The Following Is a Reliable Recipe Containing All the Toothsome Sweets Imaginable. Tho fruit should bo proporcd tho day beforo making tho enko. Croam together ono pound ununited butter and ono pound of sugar. Sift together a pound of pastry Hour and a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful each of cloves, cinnamon, maco and nutmeg and a saltspoonful of Bait, and set near tho lira where tho flour will bo thoroughly dry. For tho fruit havo ready four pounds Inl-sins Inl-sins seeded and quartered and dredged with flour, threo pounds of currantB or their equivalent In dates, figs or prunes Boaked and Bllghtly cooked, then chopped; a pound of citron shaved as lino as possible ono-lmlf pound ground almonds and n half pound each candled lemon and orange peol shredded. For tho motet-uro motet-uro havo measured out ono cop of confoctionor's molasses, two-thirds of a cup rich fruit syrup from proBorved Btrawborrios, peaches, plums or cherries, cher-ries, and tho grated rind and julco of one lemon and on orange A hnlf-glll of brandy hiny bo added or not as prcfcrrod. Having creamed tho butter but-ter nnd BUgar, add 12 unbeaten eggs, ono nt a tlmo, using tho hands to boat them in Instead of a spoon. When woll blended add part of tho liquid, then purt of tho flour mlxturo. Whon nil havo been UBod bent In n half-toaspoonful half-toaspoonful soda dissolved In a llttlo warm water nnd tlion mix In all tho fruit oxcoptlnR tho citron. When thoroughly blended put n half-Inch lnyor of tho batter In a pan that has been lined with' sovoral thlcknessoB of paper, taking enro that tho paper comes well nbovo tho edge of tho tin. Cover with a uniform layer of citron BhavIngB, then nnother layer of tho batter and citron, having tho InBt lnyor of the dough. Cover closely and sot away over night In tho morning morn-ing bake five hours In n steady, moderate mod-erate oven, protecting tho top of tho enko with paper till Bufllclontly risen, or atonin, then bnko. When partially cooled, Ice with tho whlto of ono egg benten Btiff with confectioner's sugar. Whon this Is cooled and hardened tho dccorntlvo Icing may bo applied. |