Dark Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 12 eggs
• 4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 pound currants
• 1 pound sliced citron
• 3 pounds Seeded raisins
• 1 pound chopped figs
• 3/4 cup any kind of wine
• 2 tablespoons strained lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon each cloves
• 3/4 teaspoon each mace
• 1/2 teaspoon each all-spice
• 1/2 teaspoon each nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and spices.

2. 2

   Dredge fruit thoroughly.

3. 3

   Cream butter and sugar, add beaten yolks and lemon juice.

4. 4

   Alternate flour and wine, add whipped whites, and beat for 10 minutes.

5. 5

   Stir in prepared fruit.

6. 6

   Line loaf-pans with 4 thicknesses paper; pour in batter.

7. 7

   Bake in slow oven from 3 to 5 hours, covering pans with paper until 1/2 baked.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 20. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon each mace and cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 34 teaspoon salt, 8 eggs, % pound each raisins and currants, 34 pound shred citron. Put together as for centennial cake, and bake in 2 loaves in moderate oven, lining pans with 3 thicknesses of paper. Duchesse Cake. — I34 cups butter, 1 cup sugar, 6 eggs, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 1 pint flour, 1 teaspoon extract cin¬ namon. Rug the butter and sugar to a light cream. Add the eggs, 2 at a time, beating 10 minutes after each addition. Sift together flour and powder, add to the butter, etc., with the extract. Mix into a medium thick batter, and bake in small, shallow, square pans, lined with thin white paper, in a steady oven 30 minutes. When they are taken from the oven, ice them. Dark Fruit Cake. — 2 cups butter, 2 cups Sugar, 12 eggs, 4 cups flour, 1 teaspoon Royal Baking Powder, 34 teaspoon salt, 1 pound .currants, 1 pound sliced citron, 3 pounds Seeded raisins, 1 pound chopped figs, 34 cup .any kind of wine, 2 tablespoons strained lem¬ on juice, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 34 teaspoon each cloves and mace, 54 teaspoon each all¬ spice

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