Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• four pounds of seeded raisins
• two and one-half pounds of picked and washed currants
• one-half pound of citron cut into thin, short strips
• one and one-half pound of white sugar
• one and one-half pound of washed butter
• one and one-half pound of sifted browned flour
• eighteen eggs
• one nutmeg grated
• one-half tea-spoonful of ground cinnamon
• one-half tea-spoonful of allspice
• one wine-glassful of whisky
• one wine-glassful of wine
• one-half tea-spoonful of cloves
• three table-spoonfuls of molasses

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter; beat the yolks in a large bowl, then add the sugar well beaten, whites, flour, butter, spices, molasses, and fruit.

2. 2

   Have the fruit well floured.

3. 3

   Add wine and whisky last.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Kentucky home cook book (1884) by Maysville (Ky.). Methodist Episcopal Church, South., page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE. Take four pounds of seeded raisins, two and one-half pounds of picked and washed currants, one-half pound of citron cut into thin, short strips, one and one-half pound of white sugar, one and one-half pound of washed butter, one and one-half pound of sifted browned flour, eighteen eggs, one nutmeg grated, one-half tea-spoonful of ground cinna- 266 Tlie New Kentucky Home Cool: Bool:. inon, one-half tea-spoonful of allspice, one wine-glassful of "whisky, one wine-glassful of wine, one-half tea-spoonful of cloves, three table-spoonfuls of molasses

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