Title: The ‘Sure to Rise’ Cookery Book

Publication details: T. J. Edmonds, 1914, Christchurch

Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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page 27

Christmas Cake.

• 1 ℔. butter
• 1 ℔. currants
• 1 ℔. raisins
• 1 ℔. sultanas
• ¼ ℔. mixed peel
• ¼ ℔. almonds
• 4 breakfastcups flour
• 2  breakfastcups sugar
• 10 eggs
• 1 heaped teaspoon Edmonds' Baking Powder
• Wine glass brandy

Beat butter to a cream, add sugar, then eggs one by one (unbeaten); mix baking powder with flour, and put in, then fruit dredged with flour. Brandy. Cook 4½ hours, moderate oven.