Fruit Loaf

Ingredients

• Three large coffee cups of granulated sugar
• 1 cup water
• 3 tablespoons of cream
• butter size of a walnut
• ^ teaspoon of vanilla
• some chopped English walnuts
• candied cherries
• raisins

Method

1. 1

   Stir sugar and water until dissolved; then put in saucepan and boil 8 minutes, and if hard enough to pull, pour on a marble slab.

2. 2

   Then pull it until it begins to cream, and work it like dough.

3. 3

   Mould into a loaf.

4. 4

   If the candy should get too stiff, moisten with cream.

5. 5

   Cover loaf with a damp napkin, and slice when cold.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Kentucky receipt book (1903) by Mary Harris Frazer, page 210. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Loaf. Three large coffee cups of granulated sugar, 1 cup water, 3 tablespoons of cream, butter size of a walnut. Stir sugar and water until dissolved ; then put in saucepan and boil 8 minutes, and if hard enough to pull, pour on a marble slab. Then pull it until it begins to cream, and work it like dough. Add to it some chopped Eng- lish walnuts, candied cherries, raisins, and ^ teaspoon of vanilla

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