Fruit Cake, Vo. 2

Ingredients

• One pound of powdered sugar
• one of butter
• one of flour
• twelve eggs
• two pounds of raisins seeded
• two of currants washed and dried
• half a pound of citron cut in little slips
• one tablespoonful of powdered mace
• one of cinnamon
• one nutmeg
• a large wine-glass of Madeira wine
• one of brandy

Method

1. 1

   Mix the butter and sugar to a cream, add the yolks of the eggs beaten light, then the wine and spice.

2. 2

   Beat well and add the flour alternately with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth.

3. 3

   Mix all the fruit together, put on them two heaping tablespoons of flour, stir it through them, and add all to the cake when ready to put it in the pans.

4. 4

   Bake in two cakes, slowly nearly two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The economical cook book (1905) by Sara T. Paul, page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit-oake, Vo. 2. One pound of powdered sugar, one of butter, one of flour, twelve eggs, two pounds of raisins seeded, two of currants washed and dried, half a pound of citron cut in little slips, one table- spoonful of powdered mace, one of cinnamon, one nutmeg ; mix a large wine-glass of Madeira wine and one of brandy

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