Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One pound seeded raisins
• one pound cleaned currants
• one-half pound pressed figs
• one-fourth pound chopped citron
• one and one-half cups granulated sugar
• one teacup New Orleans molasses
• three eggs
• one-half cup melted butter
• one teacup buttermilk
• one heaping teaspoon soda
• one teaspoon, level full, ground cinnamon
• one teaspoon, level full, ground cloves
• one teaspoon, level full, ground ginger
• one-half nutmeg, grated
• one-fourth teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash and flour raisins and currants, chop citron and figs, and mix all ingredients to make a stiff dough; bake very slowly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Times cook book, no. 2 (1905) by Los Angeles Times, page 88. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one heaping teaspoon baking powder. Add tne whites of three eggs, beaten stiff, flavor with almond, ice with FONDANT ICING: One cup granulated sugar, one-half cup boiling water; boil until it forms a soft ball dripped in 5ce water. Pour on a cold platter. When nearly cold stir with a woolen spoon, until white and firm; flavor with vanilla. No. 89. WHITE CAKE, with Pink Straw- berry or Raspberry Icing. Nina Beil Sherman, Chicago, 111. — One cup of sugar, one-half but- ter, one-half sweet milk, whites of two eggs, one teaspoon cream of tartar, one-half tea- spoon soda, two and a half of sifted flour. Bake in a square tin. When cold cover with the icing made as follows: One-half teaspoon of almond or lemon extract to flavor cake, one-half cup juice of strawberry or raspberry, one teaspoon sugar; strain; add powdered su- gar t'o make stiff; spreaa on top and side. No. SO. WHITE CAKE, with Yellow Frost- ing. Lizie A. Graves, Ontario, Cal.— One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspons J)aking powder, whites of three eggs, well beaten? Make tnree layers. Frosting: Yolks of three eggs, one cap sugar, one-half teaspoon vanilla. Beat fifteen minutes. No. £1. WHITE CHOCOIATE CAKE. Mrs. L. M. Ealey, Clearwater, Cal.— Whites of three eggs, one and one-half teacups sugar, two-thirds cup butter, one cup milk, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon lemon. Filling: Ore cup vhite sugar, Ave tablespoons milk. Boil five min- utes. Beat until coll; add one-fourth cake of baker's chocolate. NO. 92. WHITE FRUIT CAKE. Mrs. J. A. Manker, 125 N. ave. 57, Highland Park, Cal.— Two-thirds cup butter, two cups sugar one cup sweet milk, three cups sifted flour, one c-tp stcned raisins, chopped; two teaspoons baking powder, whites *of four eggs, one nut- meg, grated. NO. S3. WORLD'S FAIR CAKE. Mrs. George Alfred Miller, No. 18, Navy st., Ocean Park, Cal.— One-half cup butter, one and one-half cups sugar, rubbed to a cream, three eggs, beaten, whites and yolks separately; one large teaspoon baking powder, tw'o cups Hour, one-half cup sweet mills, six tablespoons unsweetened chocolate, 'hree tablespoons granulated sugar dissolved in throe tablespoons scalded m:lk. Add to cake wftile hot. Bako in a rather shallow pan in a steady oven about forty minutes. CARAMEL: Tv.'o cups- sr.gar, three-fourths cup sweet milk, butter size of an COOKING AND OTHER RECIPES. 53 egg; boil fiften minutes or until it threads from a spoon; remove from stove, add one tablespoon vanilla and beat until thick and creamy. Spreal on cake while warm. NO. 94. ANGEL FOOD LAYER CAKE. Miss Josephine Muller, San Gabriel, Cal.— One cup of fine granulated sugar, one-fourth cup but- ter ,one and one-half cups flour, two eggs, one-half cup sweet milk, vanilla and one tea- spoon baking powder. Filling: Cut into small pieces one-third of a pound of pink angel food or marsh mallows, and dissolve in one pint of sweet cream over night. Next morning whip and spread between layers when cake is cold. NO. 95. FRUIT CAKE. Mrs. Mattie Arm- strong, 1442 Sixth street, San Bernardino, Cal. —One pound seeded raisins, one pound cleaned currants, one-half pound pressed figs, one- fourth pound chopped citron, one one one- half cups granulated sugar, one teacup New Orleans molasses, three eggs, one-half cup melted butter, one teacup buttermilk with heaping teaspoon soda beaten into it well until dissolved, one teaspoon, level full, each: ground cinnamon, cloves, ginger, one-half nut- meg, grate

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