Fruit Cake, Leavened

Ingredients

• One pound and a half of flour
• one gill of yeast
• six eggs
• I lb. of butter
• I % lbs. of brown sugar
• three teaspoonfuls of mace and nutmeg mixed
• I lb. of raisins or currants
• half a pint of cream

Method

1. 1

   Let half the materials rise with the yeast.

2. 2

   After it rises, add the second half and let it rise again.

3. 3

   This process takes about two days but results in a cake with a nice flavor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Cake, Leavened CAKES Honey Cake cloves. Mix the batter as in making pound cake ; then stir in all the fruits, excepting the raisins and citron; re- serve these, after flouring them well, until you are filling the mould; put in a two-inch layer of the dough, then strew over a layer of raisins and citron ; repeat this until the mould is two- thirds full ; let the heat be gradually applied to it. FruitCake, Leavened. — One pound and a half of flour, one gill of yeast, six eggs, I lb. of butter, I % lbs. of brown sugar, three teaspoonfuls of mace and nutmeg mixed, I lb. of raisins or currants, half a pint of cream

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