Foodie Friday - Brown Sugar Cake

From a Tyrconnell Heritage Society book in progress 

called "Grandma's Recipes Circa 1902"

Brown Sugar Cake

Two quarts of flour

¼ pound of butter

Ten eggs

1 ½ pounds sugar

Wineglass of brandy

Nutmeg

Orange peel grated

Two quarts of flour, sift and rub quarter of a pound of butter in it; beat together 10 eggs and one and a half pounds of sugar; stir in a wine-glass of brandy, with nutmeg and some orange-peel grated in it; then work the flour and butter up with it, roll out and bake in an oven, in cakes cut out with a shape.

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