Recipe: Thanksgiving Cake - 1902 newspaper recipe

THANKSGIVING CAKE

"Sift two and a half pounds
of flour, in which mix three
teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.

Cream two pounds of
butter and three pounds of
sugar together.

Mix with eighteen well beaten
eggs, half pound of beaten almonds,
a wineglassful of currant jelly,
a teacupful of preserved
lemon peel and a teaspoonful
of extract of cinnamon.

Stir in the flour, pour in a large
cakemold and bake two hours
and a half.

When cold ornament with bonbons
and lemon icing."

Source: Richmond Climax Newspaper -
Wednesday, Nov 19, 1902 - Richmond, Ky

PDF of newspaper page (click here)
See left-hand middle of page for recipe.