Apple Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups dried apples
• ly, cup sirup
• Vi pint milk
• 1 cup sugar
• Y^ cup butter
• 3 eggs
• 1 pound raisins
• 1 pound currants
• 2 teaspoonfuls of mixed spice
• Y^ nutmeg
• 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1 pound flour

Method

1. 1

   Soak apples overnight.

2. 2

   Chop fine, put apples and sirup over the fire, cook for 2 hours, set aside to cool.

3. 3

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, add by degrees the eggs, then the apples, fruit, and spice; sift the baking powder with the flour; add flour and milk alternately, mix all together, pour into a paper-lined buttered form and bake in a moderate oven till done.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 7 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 376. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Apple Fruit Cake. — Two cups dried apples, ly, cup sirup, Vi pint milk, 1 cup sugar, Y^ cup butter, 3 eggs, 1 pound raisins, 1 pound currants, 2 teaspoonfuls of mixed spice — of cinnamon, of cloves, and of allspice — Y^ nutmeg, 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 1 pound flour

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