Three-quarters of a pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sugar,
one pound of sifted flour, one-half pound of currants washed, one-half
pound of raisins stoned and chopped, one-half pound of citron cut fine,
one teaspoonful each of cloves, mace, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg,
one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of brandy, four eggs and one
teaspoonful of soda. Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks of
eggs beaten light with the spices and brandy; then the fruit rolled in
part of the flour; add the soda to the rest of the flour and stir
alternately with the milk into the other ingredients; add at the last
the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake two hours in a moderate
oven.