Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

4 c Yellow sugar 1 lb Mixed peel
2 c Butter 1/2 lb Almonds
10 Eggs 1/2 lb Walnuts
2 c Sour cream 3 lb Raisins
1 ts (large)soda 3 lb Currants
1/2 c Baking syrup 7 c Flour
2 c Chopped dates

Directions: Also include Vanilla and Lemon Extract, cloves, cinnamon, mace
and 1 1/2 nutmegs. Use some of the flour to flour raisins, currants, dates,
peel and nut meats.Put this together in order written down. Bake in a slow
oven 3 or 4 hours. This makes a 4 story cake. This is transcribed from my
grandmother's handwritten recipe book, used by her during the first quarter
of this century.

Liz Parkinson

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