Wedding Cake Manufacture

Abstract

Wedding Cake recipes vary in different parts of the country, and many of the older established businesses have their own particular recipe handed down over the years. A good quality cake is made as follows:

• 6 lb. Barbadoes or brown sugar

• 5 lb. butter

• 1 lb. shortening

• 7 1/2 lb. egg

• 6 lb. straight run flour

• 1 lb. ground almonds

• 20 lb. currants

• 7 lb. sultants

• 3 lb. cut peel

• 4 oz. glycerine

• 1 gill rum

• zest and juice of 4 lemons

• 1/2 oz. Curaçao orange

• Black Jack as desired.