Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• one and one-half pounds butter
• one pound sugar
• the yolks of twelve eggs
• one ounce each of cinnamon
• cloves
• mace
• nutmeg
• one pound of chopped citron
• one pint of brandy
• one level teaspoon of baking soda
• one-half pint of molasses
• part of one pound of flour
• part of one pound of powdered almonds
• three pounds of currants
• two pounds of raisins
• the twelve beaten whites

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks and spices.

2. 2

   Dissolve baking soda in molasses and mix with flour, almonds, currants, and raisins.

3. 3

   Finally, fold in beaten egg whites.

4. 4

   Bake for three to four hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Council cook book (1908), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cake. Cream one and one-half pounds butter and one pound sugar; add the yolks of twelve eggs, one ounce each of cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmeg, and one Sanitary Plumbing and Gas-fitting, Stoves and Furnaces repaired. Chimney Tops put on. FRED T. KNOLES, 2000 Fillmore Street. Tel. West 1855 CAKES 141 pound of chopped citron that has been soaked in one pint of brandy one-half hour. Dissolve one level teaspoon of baking soda in one-half pint of molasses and add part of it, with part of one pound of flour, part of one pound of powdered almonds, three pounds of currants th?it have been dredged in flour, and, two pounds of raisins; then add the remaining flour, fruit, almonds, and molasses, and lastly the twelve beaten whites

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