Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One and one-half pounds salt pork chopped fine
• 1 pint boiling water
• 1 1/2 pounds raisins
• 1 pound currants
• 1 pound figs
• 1 pound lemon peel
• 2 cups molasses
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 teaspoons allspice
• 2 teaspoons cloves
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons soda
• Dousman's Best Patent flour to thicken

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Superior cook book (1905) by Grace Church (Ishpeming, Mich.), page 100. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cu])s brown sugar. 2 cups inolasses, 2 cups raisins. 8 cups Dousman's Best Patent flour 2 teasi)oons even full of soda, spices to taste. Bake m a Jewel Eange. ' ]\[iss Sweet. Marble Cake. Beat half a cupful of initter to a cream: add gradually a cupful and a half of <uo-ar- then add half a cupfu! of water, then one cupful of flour, a pinch of salt; then add the white* of four eggs well beaten, then another cupful of flour and the iuice and I'ind of a lemon. Stand this aside while yon make the dark portion of the cake bv beating together until verv light a (piarter of a cujifnl of butter, one cupful of brown .-^ugarand the volks of four eo:ori,: then add half a cupful of water and one cupful and a half of tlou'r. Beat until smooth, then add two ounces of melted choco- late and one te.ispoonful of vanilla : mix well and add a teaspoonful of baking powder and also add a teaspoonful of baking powder to the light mixture which v<m have previouslv made. (Jrease a cake-])an. Put in a layer of the white mixture, tiien a layer of th'e dark. am\ so continue until all is use.l. i^ake in a moderate oven for three-ipiaiters of an hour. Miss L.mka \\Ai.Ti:iis. St. I.ouis, .\io. One Egg Cake. One ouj) suirar, 1 egg, ^ cup butter. -.', cu[) milk. •.' cups Hour, 2 teaspoonfuls of baking !)owder. "^ Bake in lavers. Mrs. Jaiix. Eggless Cake. One and one-half teacups of sour milk. \ cup butter, 1 teaspoon soda, i ten- <!)oon cinnamon, h teaspoon grated nutmeg, 1 teacup raisins chopped, 3 cups ot Jfted flour. ' ^I'^s- OLE Walseth. 134 StJPEKIOK COOK BOOK Corn Starch Cake. Olio Clip InitttT, 2 cups ,-u,:^ar. 2 cups Hour, 1 cup milk, 1 cup eorji starcJi, 4 eggs,. 2 to.ispooiLs baking ])o\vder. Bako one houi-. Miss Myrtle Tucker. Fruit Cake. One and nne-lialf pounds salt pork cli()j>[)cd line. 1 pint boiling water, Vj pounds j-aisins. ]i i)()unds currants. 1 pound ligs,l pound lemon peel, 2 cups molasses, 2 cups ])ro\vn sugar, 2 teaspoons allspice, 2 teaspoons cloves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 teaspoons ^oda, Dousman's Best Patent flour to thicken

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