Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half cups mince meat
• 4 cups flour
• % cup sugar
• 3 eggs
• % cup butter
• % cup milk
• 1 cup boiling water
• 1 tspn. cinnamon
• Y2 tspn. nutmeg
• 1 tspn. vanilla
• 1 level tblspn baking soda

Method

1. 1

   Pour the cup of boiling water over the soda; allow it to get cold.

2. 2

   Cream sugar and butter.

3. 3

   Add the eggs well beaten, milk, soda, meat, flavoring, and last, the sifted flour.

4. 4

   This makes a delicious layer cake or gems; white icing.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Memorial Hall cook book (1919) by Willow Grove Memorial Hall (Willow Grove, Pa.), page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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