Plumb Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound currants
• 1 drachm nutmeg
• 1 drachm mace
• 1 drachm cinnamon
• salt
• 1 pound citron
• candied orange peel
• blanched almonds
• 6 pounds flour
• 21 eggs
• 1 quart new ale yeast
• 0.5 pint wine
• 1.5 pints cream
• raisins

Instructions

1. Mix one pound of currants with one drachm each of nutmeg, mace and cinnamon, a little salt, one pound of citron, candied orange peel and blanched almonds, and six pounds of well-dried flour.
2. Beat twenty-one eggs.
3. Add the beaten eggs with one quart of new ale yeast, half a pint of wine, three half-pints of cream, and as many raisins as needed.