Fruit Cake by Measure (Excellent)

Ingredients

• Two SCANT teacupfuls of butter
• three cupfuls of dark brown sugar
• six eggs
• one pound of raisins
• one of currants
• half a pound of citron
• half a cupful of cooking molasses
• half a cupful of sour milk
• half a grated nutmeg
• one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one teaspoonful of mace
• a wine-glass of brandy
• four cupfuls of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add to that half a grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, add the molasses and sour milk.

2. 2

   Stir all well; then put in the beaten yolks of eggs, a wine-glass of brandy; stir again all thoroughly, and then add four cupfuls of sifted flour alternately with the beaten whites of eggs.

3. 3

   Now dissolve a level teaspoonful of soda and stir in thoroughly.

4. 4

   Mix the fruit together and stir into it two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour; then stir it in the cake.

5. 5

   Butter two common-sized baking tins carefully, line them with letter paper well buttered, and bake in a moderate oven two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 185. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE BY MEASURE. (Excellent.) Two SCANT teacupfuls of butter, three cupfuls of dark brown sugar, six eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, one pound of raisins, seeded, one of currants, washed and dried, and half a pound of citron cut in thin strips; also half a cupful of cooking molasses and half a cupful of sour milk. Stir the butter and sugar to a cream, add to that half a grated nutmeg, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, one teaspoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful of mace, add the molasses and sour milk. Stir all well; then put in the beaten yolks of eggs, a wine-glass of brandy; stir again all thoroughly, and then add four cupfuls of sifted flour

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