Dried Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• three cupfuls of dried apples or any dried fruit
• two cupfuls of molasses
• one cupful of sugar
• two eggs
• three-quarters of a cupful of butter
• a cupful of milk
• a teaspoonful of cinnamon
• half a teaspoonful of cloves
• half a nutmeg grated
• a level teaspoonful of soda
• one pound of pastry flour

Method

1. 1

   Soak the dried fruit in cold water for twelve hours, drain and chop.

2. 2

   Cover with molasses and simmer for two hours.

3. 3

   Beat sugar and eggs until light, add butter, fruit, milk, spices, and soda.

4. 4

   Gradually stir in flour.

5. 5

   Bake in a greased pan for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from My best 250 recipes (1907) by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRIED FRUIT CAKE Soak three cupfuls of dried apples or any dried fruit in sufficient cold water to cover, for twelve hours; drain, and chop rather fine. Cover with two cupfuls of molasses, simmer gently over a slow fire for two hours, and stand aside to cool. Beat one cupful of sugar and two eggs together until very light; add three-quar- ters of a cupful of butter that has been washed and softened; add the apples, a cupful of milk, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of cloves, half a nutmeg grated, and a level tea- spoonful of soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of warm water. Sift one pound of pastry flour

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