Dark Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• V cup butter
• 2 eggs
• 34 cup brown sugar
• 4 cup milk
• 34 cup seeded raisins, cut in pieces
• 34 cup currants
• 44 cup citron, thinly sliced and cut in strips
• 14 cup molasses
• 1% teaspoon lemon extract
• Vg teaspoon soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 4% teaspoon each, allspice and mace
• 14 teaspoon clove

Method

1. 1

   Mix (To Mix Butter Cakes, p.

2. 2

   647).

3. 3

   Bake in deep cake pans for 1.25 hours in moderately slow oven (325°F).

As published

This recipe was extracted from Boston Cooking-School cook book (1896) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln,", James B. Herndon , Herndon/Vehling Collection, Sam Sloan, D. A. Lincoln, page 275. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

lV cup seeded raisins, cut in pieces 114 cups bread flour 1 cup walnut meats, cut in pieces | 1 teaspoon vanilla Mix ingredients in order given and bake in deep cake pan 50 min- utes. Cover with any boiled frosting (p. 681) and as soon as frosting is set, spread with a very thin layer of melted chocolate. GRANT CAKE 1% cup butter 114% cups seeded raisins, cut in pieces 1 cup sugar 1% teaspoons soda 1 egg, well beaten 34 teaspoon allspice 1 cup sour milk 34 teaspoon cloves 2% cups flour 11% teaspoons cinnamon V teaspoon salt Cream butter and add sugar gradually, while beating constantly ; add egg and sour milk. Mix and sift 244 cups flour with soda, spices, and salt and add to first mixture; then add raisins dredged with remaining flour. Turn into a buttered oblong cake pan and bake 50 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.). 668 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL COOK BOOK APPLE SAUCE CAKE Y cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 cup cold, unsweetened apple sauce 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup raisins and nuts, cut in pieces 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14 teaspoon powdered clove 2 cups flour Cream butter, add sugar gradually. Add soda to apple sauce and add to butter and sugar. Add other ingredients and bake in buttered and floured pan 40 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.). BANANA CAKE 1% cup butter 11% cups sugar 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup banana, mashed 2 cups flour \ teaspoon baking soda or 1 teaspoon, if sour milk is used 1 teaspoon vanilla or lemon extract V4 teaspoon salt or both” 1% cup milk, sweet or sour Cream butter, add sugar gradually. Add eggs, and beat thor- oughly. Add banana pulp and flavoring. Sift dry ingredients together and add alternately with milk. Bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 20 to 30 minutes. Banana Nut Cake. Add 4% cup chopped nut meats to mixture. QUICK DATE CAKE - ¥ cup soft butter 14% cups brown sugar 2 eggs 4 cup milk 134 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon cinnamon Y4 teaspoon grated nutmeg ¥ pound dates, stoned and cut in pieces Put ingredients in a bowl and beat all together for 3 minutes, using a wooden cake spoon. Bake in buttered and floured muffin tins or cake pan 35 to 40 minutes in moderate oven (350° F.). HARVARD CAKE 1 teaspoon soda ¥ teaspoon cinnamon 44 teaspoon nutmeg 244 cups sifted flour 2 cups light brown sugar Y% cup butter 2 egg yolks, beaten light 1 cup sour milk Cream butter, add sugar slowly, and egg yolks. Sift dry ingre- dients and add alternately with milk to first mixture. Bake in shallow tin or 2 layer-cake pans in moderate oven (350° F.). Put to- gether with Raisin Filling (p. 674) or Seven-Minute Frosting (p. 682). LOAF AND LAYER CAKES 669 DARK FRUIT CAKE V cup butter 2 eggs 34 cup brown sugar 4 cup milk 34 cup seeded raisins, cut 2 cups flour in pieces Vg teaspoon soda 34 cup currants 1 teaspoon cinnamon 44 cup citron, thinly sliced 4% teaspoon each, allspice and mace and cut in strips 14 teaspoon clove 14 cup molasses 1% teaspoon lemon extract

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