Cherry Cake Recipe ingredients

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

To prepare this Cherry Cake Recipe, first pick, and stone the cherries. Make the milk hot, and melt the butter in it. Blanch the almonds, and put them through a nut mill, and pound them well in a mortar. Now mix the almonds with the bread crumbs, sugar and a pinch each of cloves and cinnamon. Pour over the milk, and also melted butter, mix again carefully, and add the cherries. Bake in a shallow tin in a moderate oven for an hour. The cake should be about an inch and a half thick. Serve with whipped cream.