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ground cinnamon, cloves and mace, 12 eggs and 1 pound flour sifted
with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; dredge the fruit with flour; stir
butter and sugar with the hand to a light white cream; then stir
with a wooden spoon and add the eggs, 1 at a time, stirring a few
minutes between each addition; next add the molasses, brandy, spice
and sifted flour and lastly stir in the fruit; butter 2 large, round
cake pans and line them with brown paper; fill in the mixture and
bake in a medium hot oven from 3 to 4 hours. Great care must be
taken that the oven is just right, as the cake burns very easily.

805. +Orange Layer Cake.+-- 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup milk,
the whites of 3 eggs, 1-1/2 cups prepared flour and the grated rind of
1/2 orange; stir butter and sugar with your right hand to a light
white cream and add the grated orange rind; beat the whites to a
stiff froth; then add them alternately with the sifted flour and
milk to the above mixture; butter 2 large jelly cake tins and line
them with buttered tissue paper; put an equal portion of the cake
batter into each pan; spread it evenly with a broad-bladed knife
dipped in water and bake the cakes in a medium hot oven till a light
brown and done, which will take from 15 to 20 minutes; to ascertain
when cakes are done thrust a knitting needle into the center of
them; if it comes out clean the cakes are done; if any dough adheres
to it the baking must be continued; as soon as the cakes are done
remove them from the oven; lay a clean cloth or paper on the kitchen
table and dust over it some powdered sugar; turn the cakes out of
pans upside down onto the cloth and let them lay till cold; in the
meantime prepare the filling, as follows: Put in a small saucepan
the juice of 1 orange, 1 teaspoonful lemon juice, a little grated
orange peel, 1 teaspoonful butter and the yolks of 3 eggs; set the
saucepan in a vessel of boiling water and stir the contents till
they thicken; remove from the fire and when cold add 1/2 cup sugar;
lay one layer of cake, bottom side up, on a jelly cake dish and
spread over it the orange mixture; lay over the remaining layer,
right side up, and dust with powdered sugar; or ice the cake with
clear icing; or cover the top of cake with an orange glaze.

806. +Lemon Layer Cake.+-- 1 cup butter, 1 cup milk, 2 cups sugar, 3
cups prepared flour and the whites of 6 eggs; stir butter and sugar
with the right hand to a light white cream, then stir it wi