Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Three lbs. best stoned raisins
• 1 lb. currants
• 1 lb. citron
• 12 eggs
• 1 lb. fresh butter
• 1 lb. loaf sugar
• 1 lb. flour
• 1 lb. almonds if liked

Method

1. 1

   Make batter as for nice cake, stir in cream of tartar, soda, spices, and molasses.

2. 2

   Steam for 6 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Two hundred tested recipes (1920) by North Carolina. Literature and Library Extension Department Woman's Club of Oxford, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE One lb. of white sugar, 1 lb. of flour, % lb. of butter, whites of 12 eggs, 2 lbs. of citron, cut in thin, long strips; 2 lbs. almonds, blanched and cut in strips; 1 large cocoanut, grated. Before the flour is sifted, add to it I teaspoonful of soda, 2 teaspoonfuls of ereaimecistariar, Cream the buttery add sugar, and beat, then add the whites of eggs, and flour, and after beating the batter well, add about 1/, of fruit, ter in the cake mold. Steam, or bake slowly and carefully as you would any fruit cake. MRS. J. D. BROOKS. ANGEL FOOD (CAKE) Whites of 12 eggs beaten to stiff froth, 12 ounces of pulverized sugar, 5 ounces flour sifted 4 or 5 times; put 1 teaspoonful cream of tartar in flour; add to the whites after beating pulverized sugar and flour very slowly, beating all the time, then add vanilla to taste. Bake in a moderate oven about 50 minutes. MRS) WieZoMILCHEBLE, UNION CAKE One cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 4 eggs, I cup milk, Ty cup cornstarch, %4 spoonful soda, 3 cups flour, I spoon- ful cream of tartar. MRow At SA TS 67 KNOX GELATINE makes a transparent, tender, quivering jelly. POUND CAKE Follow these directions and you will have a delicious cake easy to make. Cream ?/, cup butter with 2 cups flour; beat 1 cup of whole eggs with a pinch of salt until very light, with an egg beater. Then beat 1% cups sugar with 1 scant teaspoonful of baking powder into the eggs. Add egg mixture to the creamed flour and butter, a little at a time until all is mixed; flavor to taste and beat vigorously with long, light strokes. Bake in a shallow tin; serve in blocks. Our grand- mothers’ pound cake recipe reduced to measure. MISS: ESTELLE Wire. MARBLE CAKE White Part One cupful white sugar, % cupful butter, % cupful buttermilk, whites of 3 eggs, I teaspoonful cream of tartar, 1% teaspoonful of soda, 2 cupfuls of flour. Dark Part One-half cupful brown sugar, 4% cupful butter, %4 cup- ful molasses, 4 cupful milk, yolks of 3 eggs, %4 nutmeg, I teaspoonful cinnamon, % teaspoonful allspice, 2 cups flour, 4% teaspoonful of soda, I teaspoonful of cream of tartar. Put in mold alternately, spoonfuls of light and dark batter. MRS. J. D. BROOKS. 68 KNOX GELATINE is the one dessert for all appetites. ANGEL CAKE Whites 8 eggs, I teaspoonful cream of tartar, I cup sugar, 34 cup flour, 14 teaspoonful salt, 34 teaspoonful vanilla. Beat whites of eggs until frothy; add cream of tartar, and continue beating until eggs are stiff, then add sugar gradually. Fold in flour mixed with salt and sifted 4 times, add vanilla. Bake 45 to 50 minutes in an un-buttered angel cake pan. VOR Sovie ear VDN >, ANGEL CAKE Whites of Io eggs, 1% cups of sugar, I cup flour, I teaspoonful cream of tartar, pinch salt, flavoring. Sift Hour cream of tartare sugar, salt, together 1 times. Add eggs, beaten light, and stir only enough to mix very lightly. Bake in slow oven. Vio De bROOKS FRUIT CAKE Three lbs. best stoned raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 Ib. cit- ron, 12 eggs, 1 lb. fresh butter, 1 1b. loaf sugar, 1 Ib. flour, 1 Ib. almonds if liked

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