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"Groom'S Cake"

1 pound brown sugar rolled.

Yolks 12 eggs well beaten. 1 teaspoon cloves. 21/2 pounds seeded raisins. 3 pounds currants. 1 pound citron thinly sliced and cut in shreds. 1/2 pound candied cherries cut in quarters. 14 pound candied orange peel finely chopped. 2 cups N. O. Molasses. 1 pound flour. 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon. 1/2 tablespoon mace. 1 teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon soda.

Whites 12 eggs beaten stiff. 1/4 cup brandy. 14 pound candied lemon peel finely chopped.

Supplementary Recipes PROCESS: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring constantly; add egg yolks, continue stirring and beating, add molasses, flour mixed and sifted with spices, salt and soda; fold in the whites of eggs and lastly add the fruit except citron. Turn mixture into a well-greased pan lined with several thicknesses of heavy paper, put citron into mixture in layers, having a layer of batter on top. Divide the mixture equally in two tube pans, eight inches in diameter, filling pans two-thirds full. Bake two and three-quarter hours.