Economy Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Four cups flour
• two cups sugar
• a three-quarters cup lard
• 14% cups sour milk
• one pound raisins
• one tablespoon cinnamon
• one tablespoon cloves
• one teaspoon spice
• 14% teaspoons ‘soda
• one teaspoon baking powder
• one whole nutmeg (grated)

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoon baking powder. Add the - beaten whites of the eggs. Bake.in two layers. When cool — . break in small pieces. Cover with whipped cream. DATE CAKHE—One large cup sugar, butter size of egg, © - one cup sour milk, teaspoon soda, pinch salt, spices to taste, - two cups of flour, one pound dates, stoned, and flour; bake - one hour in slow oven. This is fine. <n a a i ae Be I am sending my mother’s recipe for ‘“devil’s food.’ ” Tt is * by far the best I have used: One-half cup cocoa or grated ‘chocolate; one-half cup sweet milk, two-thirds cup light brown sugar, yolk of one egg. Beat all together and cook © until it thickens, stirring to keep from burning. When cool © add to it one cup light brown sugar, one-half cup butter, — » one-half cup sweet milk, 1% cups flour, two eggs, one scant _ teaspoon soda, dissolve in a little hot water. Bake in layers | - or loaf, but have a very slow fire, and if there is danger of ~ oh burning on bottom, put a dish-of cold water on the pottom — “of the oven, under the cake. If you use care you will find — _ this very finé and not hard to make. I sometimes put gine Py ey Barosting between layers and on top. a ee As i at of ‘EL, BAW, aah oy — PENS eee sl ee Se eee It has been tried and not found wanting in any particular. No molasses is used in it: One cupful sugar (coffee A is best), one-half cupful butter, cream together butter and sugar; one cupful sour milk or buttermilk, two ‘ whites and yolks beaten separately; two teaspoonfuls A cinnamon, one cupful currants, one cupful raisins, one-half candied lemon peel, three cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda nd one-half teaspoonful cream of’tartar sifted in the flour. — Hither chop fine or grind the currants, raisins and lemon ~ peel, then dredge in flour. Add beaten whites of eggs last. hope this recipe will be of value to some of the house= a ‘ives who find it hard to obtain good molasses. ® “i ECONOMY FRUIT CAKE—This recipe is a very good one and is especially valuable when butter and:eggs are high, ~ since it requires neither. Four cups flour, two cups sugar, a three-quarters cup lard, 14% cups sour milk, one pound ~ aisins, one tablespoon cinnamon, one tablespoon cloves, one © teaspoon spice, 14% teaspoons ‘soda, one teaspoon baking | powder, one whole nutmeg (grated)

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