Fruit Cake

Name: Fruit Cake
Yield: 20 servings
Ingredients: Three pounds of flour; three pounds of sugar; three pounds of butter; thirty eggs; one ounce of cinnamon; four or five nutmegs; cloves to your judgment; half a pint of wine; half a pint of brandy; six pounds of currants; five pounds of stoned raisins; one citron and a half

From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883

Serves 20

Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 345. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cake. — Three pounds of flour, three pounds of sugar, three pounds of butter, thirty eggs, one ounce of cinnamon, four or five nutmegs, cloves to your judgment, half a pint of wine and brandy each, six pounds of currants, five pounds of stoned raisins, one citron and a half

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