Mount Vernon Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/4 lb. sugar
1/2 lb. butter
1 3/4 lb. flour
6 eggs
1 pt. sour cream
1 tsp. soda
1/2 lb. citron
2 lemons (juice of 1 and rind of 2)
1 tsp. nutmeg
some mace
1 lb. raisins
1 lb. currants

Preparation

Cream butter and sugar; add the egg yolks, well beaten, then the cream and flour with spices alternately, then the well beaten egg whites.
Last of all, the well floured fruit.
Bake about 2 hours.
Cover top first hour with buttered paper.
This was probably baked in a brick oven at Mount Vernon.
Have fun improvising.