Recipe - Election Cake

1 cup Currants, soaked overnight
in a tightly closed jar in
One half cup Brandy
1 tablespoon Sugar
Three fourths cup Scalded Milk
1 Yeast Cake
One fourth cup Warm Water
1 cup Flour, unsifted
One half cup Butter
1 cup Sugar
2 One fourth cup Flour, sifted
One half teaspoon Salt
Three fourths teaspoon Mace
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
1 Egg, whole
1 teaspoon Lemon Rind, grated
2 teaspoon Lemon Juice

LEMON OR ORANGE GLAZE

RECIPE TO FOLLOW

To the scalded milk add 1 Tbsp. sugar; cool. Dissolve the crumbled
yeast in warm water, and add to milk. Add the unsifted flour, and beat
until well blended. Let rise in warm place until it has doubled in bulk,
about 1 hour.
Cream butter and sugar until very light. Drain brandy from currants.
Place sifted flour, salt, mace, and cinnamon in sifter. Add egg to creamed
mixture and beat until light. Stir in lemon rind and juice. Add yeast
mixture and beat thoroughly. Add currants, retaining the brandy for later.
Sift in flour, add brandy, beat well. Place in tube pan or 9x5 loaf pan
that has been well greased. Cover with a cloth and place in warm place away
from draft. Allow to rise until doubled in bulk. This mixture rises very
slowly and may take 4 to 6 hours to double in bulk.
Bake at 375øF for about 45 minutes. Cool in pan briefly. Turn out on
rack, allow to cool further. Then brush with lemon or orange glaze (recipe
to follow).

Source: The First Ladies Cookbook 1969 . Chapter on Abraham & Mary
Lincoln

Posted by: Sandy May 11/93

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