Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup raisins
• 4 eggs
• 2.5 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon soda, dissolved in molasses
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 pound blanched almonds
• 1 pound raisins
• 1 pound crystallized cherries
• 0.5 pound citron

Method

1. 1

   Add spices to flour; add the flour to creamed butter, sugar and eggs; flour the fruit well and add to above mixture.

2. 2

   Add fruit juice last.

3. 3

   Steam four hours, and bake one hour.

4. 4

   Leave the cherries whole.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Delta Gamma cook book (1922), page 60. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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