4 cups flour
2” sugar
½ lb. butter
6 egg whites + yolks sep.
1 ½ lb. white raisins whole
3 cups shelled pecans chopped
1 nutmeg grated
1 tsp. Baking powder
2 glasses whiskey or sherry
Beat butter to rich cream, add sugar and beat all till very light. Beat egg yolks until they are lemon color, then add to sugar and butter and beat very light. Beat egg whites stiff and fold in. Sift baking powder and flour together and add. Then add liquids, raisins, nutmeg and nuts. Bake 3 hrs in slow oven – 250°.
*Milk could be substituted for whiskey or sherry – in times of drouth.
Keeps well – under lock and key.
(Note from the internet: drouth = “dialect or poetic form of drought.”)
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