Black Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of sugar
• one pound of butter
• ten well beaten eggs
• one pound of dainty flour
• two pounds of raisins
• two pounds of currants
• one pound of citron
• one pound of English walnuts
• one cupful of cold water
• one teaspoon of soda

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add eggs and flour.

2. 2

   Spice the batter and add fruit.

3. 3

   Mix well and add water with dissolved soda.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 85. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Black Fruit Cake. — Cream one pound of sugar and one pound of butter until light ; then add ten well beaten eggs, one pound of dainty flour, reserving some of it to flour the fruit. Spice the batter with nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves. Add two pounds of raisins, two pounds of currants, well washed ; one pound of cit- ron, cut small; one pound of English walnuts (in shell) cut small; one pound of dried figs, cut small. Seed and cut small the raisins. Mix all the fruit, add part of the flour to it, and flour the fruit well so it does not stick together; stir into your batter; now add one cupful of cold water, in which one teaspoon of soda

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.