Black Fruit Cake

Name: Black Fruit Cake
Ingredients: 1 po und sugar and 1 pound butter until light; 10 well beaten eggs; 1 pound flour; 2 pounds raisins; 2 pounds well washed currants; 1 pound of small cut citron; 1 pound of English walnuts (in shell) cut fine; 1 pound dried figs cut small; 1 cup cold water; 1 teaspoonful soda

From The housewife's aid, 1950

Presented as published in 1950. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The housewife's aid (1950) by N.C.). Young Woman's Aid Society Queen Street Methodist Church (Kinston, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BLACK FRUIT CAKE und sugar and 1 pound butter until light; then add erving some of it to flour cinnamon and cloves, Cream 1 po 10 well beaten eggs, 1 pound flour, res the fruit; spice the batter with nutmeg, 64 THE HOUSEWIFE’S AID 2 pounds raisins, 2 pounds well washed currants, 1 pound of small cut citron, 1 pound of English walnuts (in shell) cut fine, 1 pound dried figs cut small; mix all fruit, flour well with part of the 1 pound flour, stir into the batter and add 1 cup cold water in which 1 teaspoonful soda

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