2½ cupsful of powdered sugar, 1½ cupsful of fresh butter, 1 cupful of milk, 3 eggs, 5 cupsful of flour, 1 wineglassful of wine, 1½ nutmegs, ½ teaspoonful of soda (scant), ½ pound stewed raisins, 2 ounces of citron. Stir sugar and butter to a cream, then add part of the flour with the milk, a little warm, and the beaten yolks of the eggs. Then add with the rest of the flour the whites of eggs, well beaten, the spice, wine and soda. Mix all thoroughly and add the fruit as you put it in the oven, stirring in the raisins, dredged with a little of the flour, and putting the citron, cut into small strips, into the loaves after they are put into the pans.

S. S. G.