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Queen's Cake

  • 1 lb white sugar
  • 1 lb flour
  • 3/4 lb butter
  • 1 lb raisins, stoned
  • 1/2 lb currants, washed & dried
  • 1/4 lb citron, cut in little pieces
  • 4 Tbsp brandy
  • 4 Tbsp wine
  • 4 Tbsp cream
  • 6 eggs, whites & yolks beaten separately, then together
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 2 tsp cloves
Stir the butter and sugar together to a cream. Add the beaten eggs, then the brandy and wine, spices, flour and lastly, the baking soda dissolved in the cream.

Leave out 2 Tbsp of flour to stir in the fruit. Add the floured fruits last.

Bake in 2 cakes in round, deep pans for nearly an hour and a half. Line the pans with buttered paper. Cover with paper when brown on top.
Submitted by Tess M Jul 4, 2010 15 min 30 min 45 min
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