Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Put I tea-spoonful of soda
• add 5 tea-spoonfuls of hot water
• 4 of melted butter
• all it will hold of chopped raisins
• all it will hold of Zante currants
• all it will hold of citron
• i tea-spoonful each of cinnamon
• and nutmeg
• and a pinch of cloves

Method

1. 1

   Bake from 3 to 4 hours in a very slow oven.

2. 2

   (Put buttered paper in the bottom of the pan.) The longer this cake is kept the better it is.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 108. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE FROM DOUGH. Two cups sugar, i cup butter, i pint dough, 2 eggs, I tea-spoonful soda, as much fruit as you wish, spices to suit the taste, use flour enough to make it as stiff as common fruit cake. Set in a warm place to rise for i hour. Bake in a moder- ate oven. MARBLE CAKE. Light part. — White sugar one and one-half cups, butter one-half cup, sweet milk one-half cup, soda one-half tea-spoonful, cream of tartar i tea-spoon- ful, whites of 4 eggs, flour two and one-half cups. Beat the eggs and sugar together. Mix the cream of tartar with the flour and dissolve the soda in the milk. Dark part. — Brown sugar i cup, molasses one- half cup, sour milk one-half cup, soda one-half tea-spoonful, flour browned two and one-half cups, yolks of 4 eggs, cloves and cinnamon ground, each one-half tea-spoonful. Ingredients mixed same as the light part ; when both are prepared, put in the cake pan alternate layers of each, or put them in spots on each other, making what is called leopard cake, until all is used ; then bake as usual. FRUIT CAKE WITHOUT EGGS. One cup of brown sugar, i of sour milk, i of raisins, 2 of flour, 4 table-spoonfuls of melted but- 314 DOMESTIC GUIDE. ter, I tea-spoonful each of cinnamon, cloves, nut- meg and soda. MOLASSES FRUIT CAKE. One cup molasses, one and three-fourths cups light brown sugar, I cup cold water, i cup butter. Boil the molasses, sugar and butter together, and set aside to cool, flour as thick as a pound cake, then add 3 eggs well beaten, then i pound of rais- ins, I of currants and one half of citron, with two table-spoonfuls of flour, mixed through the fruit. Bake nearly 2 hours. FRUIT CAKE. Put I tea-spoonful of soda in a coffee cup, add 5 tea-spoonfuls of hot water, 4 of melted butter and fill with molasses, make it pretty stiff with flour, then stir in this all it will hold of chopped raisins, Zante currants, citron, and i tea-spoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg, and a pinch of cloves

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.