Fruit Cake (No. 2)

Ingredients

• one pound of brown sugar
• one pound of butter
• ten eggs
• one pound of flour
• two pounds of raisins
• two pounds of currants
• one-half pound of citron
• one nutmeg
• one teaspoonful cloves
• one of allspice
• one cupful of boiled cider
• two teaspoonfuls Equity baking-powder

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and mix well.

2. 2

   Bake in a preheated oven until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 97. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ten eggs, and stir until cold. Add one-half teaspoonful of citric acid and flavor to taste. If you like, add half pound sweet almonds blanched and pounded to a paste, and it will be found very nice. This amount will frost the top and sides of two large cakes. To BLANCH ALMONDS. Pour boiling water on them, slip their "coats" off, and throw them in cold water, to prevent them turning yellow; when pound- ed, moisten with whites of eggs, rose water, or orange flower water. CAKE. 163 ALMOND ICING — Very fine. ^ . Beat up the whites of six eggs to a stiff froth; add one pound of blanched almonds, pounded tine, with a little rose water, then mix in by degrees, five teacupfuls of powdered sugar; put it on the cake very thick, and when nearly dry, cover with plain icing. CHOCOLATE ICING. Two sticks of chocolate, grated, one-half cup of sweet milk, one tablespoonful cornstarch, one teaspoonful vanilla. Boil two minutes, sweeten to taste, and add the vanilla. To COLOR ICING. To color a delicate pink, use strawberry, currant or cranberry; or the grated peeling of an orange or lemon moistened with the juice and squeezed through a thin cloth, will color a handsome yellow. FURIT CAKE. (No. 1.) One and one-half pounds of flour, one and one-half pounds of sugar, one and one-half pounds of butter, two pounds of currants, two pounds of raisins, one-half pound of citron, one-half ounce each of mace, cloves and cinnamon, twelve eggs, one cupful of molases, one cupful of strong coffee, one teaspoonful of soda. FRUIT CAKE. (No. 2.) One pound of brown sugar, one pound of butter, 10 eggs, one pound of flour, two pounds of raisins, two pounds of currants, one-half pound of citron, one nutmeg, one teaspoonful cloves, and one of allspice, one cupful of boiled cider, two teaspoonfuls Equity baking-powder

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