Cherry Cake Recipe

Ingredients for Cherry Cake Recipe

• ¼ pound butter
• ¼ pound bread crumbs
• 2 pounds black cherries
• 2 ounces almonds
• Cinnamon, cloves
• 2 ounces sugar
• ¼ pint of milk

Instructions

1. Pick, and stone the cherries.
2. Make the milk hot, and melt the butter in it.
3. Blanch the almonds, and put them through a nut mill, and pound them well in a mortar.
4. Now mix the almonds with the bread crumbs, sugar and a pinch each of cloves and cinnamon.
5. Pour over the milk, and also melted butter, mix again carefully, and add the cherries.
6. Bake in a shallow tin in a moderate oven for an hour.
7. The cake should be about an inch and a half thick.
8. Serve with whipped cream.