Fruit Cake
From The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book, 1901
Serves 7
Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The standard book of recipes and housewife's guide, comprising as complete cook book (1901) by Johnson, Alice A.,, page 52. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Fruit Cake.^Four eggs, one cup sugar, two cups molasses, one and one-half cups butter, one-half cup milk, one teaspoonful soda, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-half pound of citron, sliced fine, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one nutmeg, 410 one teaspoonful cloves, five cups flour. Bake two and one-half hours, in a slow oven. Fruit Cake. — One pound sugar, one pound butter, one pound flour, ten eggs, one pound raisins, one-half pound currants, one-fourth pound citron, one nutmeg, one tablespoonful cinnamon, one tablespoonful ginger and allspice mixed, one tablespoon- ful vinega
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