Fruit and White Cake
From Superior cook book, 1905
Serves 8
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 107. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
> cups Dousman's Best Patent flour, i/_. 11). citron cut' fine, i/> Ih. grated cocoanut, 1 teas|)oonful of rose water, 1 tea- spoonful of lemon extract, 2 heaping teaspoonfuls of haking powder, 1 small slice of suffared orange rieel. Cream the sugar and hutter. add ci'eam. sifted flour, nuts, etc.. and lastly the whites of the eggs heaten stifl'. Select a deep Itaking pan and line the hottom with huttered pa]ier. Put in a layer of hiack cake and then a layer of white cake, and so on until the ])an is -;.; full. I'ake for an hour or more in a moderate oven in a .Kwel I'ange. ]\l!;s. .1. S. Johnson. Fruit and White Cake. One cu]j Ijutter. 1 cu]) sugar, "2 cups molasses, 1 cuj) sweet milk. 2 cups raisins, chopped, 2 cujis currants. 1 teaspoon of all kinds of sp)ice, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1 teaspoon soda, yolks of 5 eggs, 4 cu])s Dousman's Best Patent flour. Bake this 3/^ of an hour, then put the white })art on top of this and hake iu a Jewel range until the white is done. White Part. Whites of o eggs, 2 cups of white granulated sugar. 1 cup of hutter. 1 cup of sweet milk, 1 teaspoon of cream tartar, i^ teaspoon soda. ;! cuj)s of flour. Will keep a long time if frosted. " M. M. K. White Fruitcake. One cup butter, beaten to a cream: add gradually 2 cups of sugar, i(. cup of railk, 3 cups of Dousman's Best I'atent flour, wineglass of hrandy, 14 l^'- citron, sliced very fine, Co lb. lilanched almonds, split, 1/4 !''• of shi't'dded cocoanut, 3 tea- spoons of baking powder mixed in 1 tablespoon of flour, whites of 8 eggs folded in. Bake in 1 loaf in a Jewel range. ^lus. William Sedowfck. Layer Fruit Cake. One-half cup butter, 1 cup sugar
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