Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• % Ib butter
• 6 eggs
• 4% cup molasses
• 2 cups plain flour
• 2 tbs raisins
• 1 tb currants
• 4% Ib citron
• 1 cup pecans
• 1 cup English walnuts
• 1 cup black walnuts
• 1 cup almonds
• 2 tbs figs
• % tb candied pineapple
• 1 apple
• 1 orange
• 1 tablespoonful cinnamon
• i level teaspoonful cloves
• 144 teaspoonful baking powder
• 1 teaspoonful soda

Method

1. 1

   Prepare fruit and nuts, mix into batter.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's aid (1950) by N.C.). Young Woman's Aid Society Queen Street Methodist Church (Kinston, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE 6 eggs, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, %4 cup milk and 3% cups prepared fiour. Cook two layers then add to the remaining batter 1 spoonful each of cinnamon and spice and 1 cup raisins and % cup English walnuts after they have been well rolled in flour. This makes a large cake. Filling.—Make white icing and stir in 1 large cocoanut, grated, and the grated rind and juice of one orange. Spread heavily be- tween and on top of layers.—Mrs. Atwood Bizzell. BLACK FRUIT CAKE und sugar and 1 pound butter until light; then add erving some of it to flour cinnamon and cloves, Cream 1 po 10 well beaten eggs, 1 pound flour, res the fruit; spice the batter with nutmeg, 64 THE HOUSEWIFE’S AID 2 pounds raisins, 2 pounds well washed currants, 1 pound of small cut citron, 1 pound of English walnuts (in shell) cut fine, 1 pound dried figs cut small; mix all fruit, flour well with part of the 1 pound flour, stir into the batter and add 1 cup cold water in which 1 teaspoonful soda has been added.—Mrs. F. E. Dixon. FRUIT CAKE 1 cup brown sugar, % Ib butter, 6 eggs, 4% cup molasses, 2 cups plain flour, 2 tbs raisins, 1 tb currants, 4% Ib citron, 1 cup pecans, 1 cup English walnuts, 1 cup black walnuts, 1 cup al- monds, 2 tbs figs, % tb candied pineapple, 1 apple, 1 orange, 1 tablespoonful cinnamon, i level teaspoonful cloves, 144 teaspoon- ful baking powde

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