Fruit Cake (No. 4)

Ingredients

• Three cupfuls of granulated sugar
• two cupfuls of butter
• one-half cup of molasses
• four and one-half cupfuls of flour
• five eggs
• three pounds of raisins
• one and one-half of currants
• one-half pound of citron
• one teaspoonful of Equity baking-powder
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• allspice
• nutmeg
• one tablespoonful of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients and bake until done.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 98. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRUIT CAKE. (No. 3.) Four cupfuls of sugar, two cupfuls of butter, one cupful cold, strong green tea, eight cupfuls of flour, one-half pint sour cream, eight eggs, two pounds of raisins, two pounds of currants, and two of almonds, one-half pound of citron, one tablespoonful of cloves, one teaspoonful saleratus, one lemon, two grated nutmegs, one cupful molasses. 164 CAKE. WEDDING CAKE — Very fine. Four pounds of flour, four pounds of sugar, three pounds of butter, forty eggs, five pounds of stoned raisins, three pounds currants, one pound of citron, chopped, one ounce of mace, half ounce of nutmeg, six teaspoonfuls of rose water, one tablespoon- ful of oil of lemon, four teaspoonfuls of baking-powder or two ounces of ammonia, well dissolved. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, whisk the whites and yolks of eggs separately, then mix and add the flour, gradually; last, the spices, fruit and ammonia. Beat well and bake six hours. FROSTING FOR WEDDING CAKE. Three and one-half pounds double refined sugar, whites of twelve eggs, beaten to a stiff froth, then add the sugar, add a little potato starch, gradually, add the juice of one lemon. Beat well, spread with a knife. Ornaments may be made of the frosting by putting a little into a paper funnel and squeezing it through in designs upon the cake, after the plain coat has well set. FRUIT CAKE. (No 4.) Three cupfuls of granulated sugar, two cupfuls of butter, one- half cup of molasses, four and one-half cupfuls of flour, five eggs, three pounds of raisins, one and one-half of currants, one-half pound of citron, one teaspponful of Equity baking-powder, one teaspoonful of cloves, allspice, nutmeg and mace, one tablespoon- ful of cinnamon. BLACK CAKE. (No. 5.) Yolks of eight eggs, one cupful of butter, two of granulated sugar, one cupful of sweet milk, three pounds of raisins, two of currants, half of them chopped, one and one-half pounds of citron, one-half pound each dates, figs, and almonds, one cupful of molasses, six cupfuls of flour browned if you wish the cake very dark, one tablespoonful of cinnamon

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.