Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One pound flour
• one pound butter
• one pound sugar
• one pound citron
• three pounds raisins
• three pounds currants
• twelve eggs
• two nutmegs (grated)
• two tablespoonfuls cinnamon
• one of cloves
• one wineglass of sherry
• one of brandy
• one cup of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, add spices and molasses; then eggs, flour, and fruit, and last the brandy and sherry.

2. 2

   Bake two hours in a very slow oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Some simple Sunday suppers (1895) by Suzan Sweeney Snapp, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cake. — One pound flour; one pound butter; one pound sugar; one pound citron; three pounds raisins; three pounds currants; twelve eggs; two nutmegs (grated); two tablespoonfuls cinnamon; one of cloves; one wineglass of sherry and one of brandy; one cup of molasses

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