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