Easy Fruit-cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup milk
• 1 cup currants
• 1 cup raisins
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 2 teaspoonfuls mixed spices
• 3 cups flour

Method

1. 1

   Wash and dry the currants.

2. 2

   Buy the seeded raisins and wash these, too, and then chop them.

3. 3

   Cream the butter and sugar, add the egg beaten well without separating, then the molasses with the soda stirred in it, then the milk, then the cinnamon and cloves.

4. 4

   Measure the flour, and then take out a half-cup of it, and stir in the raisins and currants, to keep them from going to the bottom of the cake when it is baked.

5. 5

   Stir these in, add the rest of the flour, and beat well.

6. 6

   Bake in two buttered bread-pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Easy Fruit-cake Margaret's Other Aunt begged to have this in the book, because she said it was so simple any little girl could make it9 and all the family could help eat it, as they were especially fond of fruit-cake. 1 cup butter. 1 cup sugar. 1 cup molasses. 1 cup milk. 1 cup currants. 1 cup raisins. 148 A LITTLE COOK BOOK 1 egg. 1 teaspoonful soda. 2 teaspoonfuls mixed spices. 3 cups flour

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