Apple Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• two cups dried apples
• one cup molasses
• one and a half cups of brown sugar
• one cup butter
• half cup sour milk
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one teaspoonful of allspice
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of soda
• three eggs
• three and one-half cups of flour

Method

1. 1

   Soak apples overnight, drain, chop, and boil with molasses.

2. 2

   Cool, then mix with other ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 358. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

APPLE FRUIT CAKE. Soak two cups dried apples over night ; in the morning drain and chop fine in chopping bowl ; add one cup molasses and let it boil slowly on back of stove three or four hours, until the molasses has thickened ; let it cool ; add one and a half cups of brown sugar, one cup butter, half cup sour milk, one teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice and cinna- mon, one teaspoonful soda, three eggs, three and one-half cups of flour ; bake in two square tins or one large five-quart basin ; if baked in the latter bake slowly two and a half hours. This will keep six months. CAKE MAKING. 419 NEW YEAR'S CAKE. One pound of flour, one and one-half pounds of almonds, one pound of sugar, three-quarter pounds of butter, six eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, one teaspoonful of soda

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