Fig Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• two cupfuls of dark brown sugar
• one of butter
• one of water
• three and one-fourth of flour
• four eggs
• one teaspoonful each of cinnamon
• and nutmeg
• half a teaspoonful of ground clove
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• half a pound of figs, cut in thin slices
• two cupfuls of raisins

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, and beat the sugar into it.

2. 2

   Add the spice and the eggs, well beaten.

3. 3

   Now add the water, and finally three cupfuls of the flour, with which the baking-powder should be mixed.

4. 4

   Dredge the fruit with the quarter of a cupful of flour.

5. 5

   Bake in two loaves in a moderate oven for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 396. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fig Loaf Cake. Use two cupfuls of dark brown sugar, one of butter, one of water, three and one-fourth of flour, four eggs, 752 MISS PAKLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. one teaspoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg, half a teaspoonful of ground clove, two teaspoonfuls of baking- powder, half a pound of figs, cut in thin slices, and two cupfuls of raisins

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