Name: Christmas Cake
Ingredients: 1 1/2 c Good butter; 1 3/4 c Brown sugar; 16 Eggs; 4 lb Raisins; 4 lb Currants; 1 lb Mixed peel cut fine; 2 lb Flour; 1 lb Almonds,blanched cut fine; 2 Nutmeg,grated same of mace; 1/2 pt Brandy; 1 tb Lemon essence

God’s love is active. He decided to love you when He could have justly condemned you. He’s involved. He’s merciful, not simply tolerant. He hates sin, yet pursues sinners by name. God is so committed to forgiving and changing you that He sent Jesus to die for you. He welcomes the poor in spirit with a shout and a feast. God is vastly patient and relentlessly persevering as He intrudes into your life. God’s love actively does you good. His love is full of blood, sweat, tears, and cries. He suffered for you. He fights for you, defending the afflicted. He fights with you pursuing you in powerful tenderness so that He can change you. He’s jealous, not detached. His sort of empathy and sympathy speaks out, with words of truth to set you free from sin and misery. He will discipline you as proof that He loves you. God Himself comes to live in you, pouring out His Holy Spirit in your heart, so that you will know Him. He puts out power and energy. God’s love has hate in it too: hatred for evil, whether done to you or by you. God’s love demands that you respond to it: by believing, trusting, obeying, giving thanks with a joyful heart, working out your salvation with fear, delighting in the Lord.

David Powlison

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs		Cakes	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Good butter
1 3/4	c	Brown sugar
16		Eggs
4	lb	Raisins
4	lb	Currants
1	lb	Mixed peel cut fine
2	lb	Flour
1	lb	Almonds,blanched cut fine
2		Nutmeg,grated same of mace
1/2	pt	Brandy
1	tb	Lemon essence

INSTRUCTIONS

Directions: Cream butter and sugar well, add the beaten yolks, then the
stiffly beaten egg whites. Put all fruits and nuts together, rub with some
of the 2 pounds of flour. Beat well, then add nuts and brandy. I make just
half of this recipe and I put in a very small teaspoon of soda. Bake
slowly. This is a transcription from my Grandma Dixon's handwritten recipe
book. It dates from the first quarter of this century.
Liz Parkinson
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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