Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• one cupful of butter
• one cupful of brown sugar
• one cupful of molasses
• one cupful of sweet milk
• three cupfuls of flour
• four eggs beaten separately
• a table-spoonful of baking-powder
• two pounds of seeded raisins chopped fine
• one-fourth pound of citron
• one nutmeg
• one tea-spoonful of cinnamon
• one tea-spoonful of cloves
• a little ground mace

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar together, then add the molasses, eggs, milk, and flour.

2. 2

   Beat well together, then stir in the fruit and spices.

3. 3

   Bake for two hours in a moderate oven.

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. Directions for mixing: Cream the butter; beat the yelks in a large bowl, then add the sugar well beaten, whites, flour, butter, spices, molasses, and fruit. Have the fruit well floured — this flour not included in the quantity given. When adding fruit, put in one handful of raisins, then currants, citron, and other fruit, until all are used. Add wine and whisky last. Dimensions of pan for the cake: Five inches deep, thirty inches in circumference at the bottom, and thirty-seven inch- es in circumference at the top. This is a beautifully shaped and delicious cake. Mbs. Robertson. CONFECTIONER'S FRUIT CAKE. Take ten pounds of butter, ten pounds of white sugar creamed together, add eighty eggs, ten pounds of sifted flour, twenty pounds of currants, twenty pounds of raisins, two pounds of citron, one pound of candied orange peel, three ounces of allspice, two ounces of ginger, three ounces of ground cloves, one ounce of cinnamon, one nutmeg, one pint of molasses with one-half tea-spoonful of soda stirred in. Mix the same as the Black Cake. Always paper the molds on the side and bottom. F. H. Traxel. RAISIN CAKE. Take one pound of flour, one pound of powdered sugar, three-fourths pound of butter, whites of fifteen eggs, one tea- spoonful of baking-powder sifted with the flour. Prepare one pound of seeded raisins, cut them fine, then sift with flour before mixing with the batter. Mrs. J. W. Power. FRUIT CAKE. Take one cupful of butter, one cupful of brown sugar, one cupful of molasses, one cupful of sweet milk, three cup- The Neiv Kentucky Home Cook Book. 267 fuls of flour, four eggs beaten separately, a table-spoonful of baking-powder, two pounds of seeded raisins chopped fine, one-fourth pound of citron, one nutmeg, one tea-spoonful of cinnamon, one tea-spoonful of cloves, a little ground mace

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