Ingredients
- Cake: 1 ounce Fleshmen's yeast
- 1/2 Pint water
- Flour
- 4 Eggs separated
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- Nutmeg
- Dixie lemon extract
- Syrup: 1 pound white sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 fresh lemon
- a piece of nutmeg or mace
- a small piece of cinnamon
- unfermented wine
Directions
Cake:
- Dissolve yeast in water.
- Add flour to dissolve yeast mixture to make a thick batter.
- Set the batter aside and let it rise.
- After the batter has risen sufficiently, add the yolks of the eggs with butter, nutmeg, few drops of lemon extract, and flour to make the batter thick.
- Set aside for 30 minutes.
- Grease and flour 12- 15 small fancy cake molds and fill 3/4 full.
- Let the cakes in the molds rise 1/2 hour.
- Put in oven and bake 20- 25 minute.
Syrup:
- Combine sugar, water, lemon, nutmeg or mace, and cinnamon.
- Cook until it forms a string syrup.
- Add the unfermented wine.
- When cakes are baked thoroughly, soak in syrup.
- Set in a sieve to drain.
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