Fruit Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two of brown sugar
• one of New Orleans molasses
• one of sweet milk
• three eggs
• five cups sifted flour
• two tea-spoons cream tartar in the flour
• tea-spoon soda in the milk
• table-spoon cinnamon
• one nutmeg
• one pound raisins
• one of currants
• quarter pound citron

Method

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   Put flour in a large crock, mix well with cream tartar, make a well in the center, put in other ingredients, having warmed the butter and molasses a little; mix well together with the hands, putting in the fruit last after it has been floured; bake two hours in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Buckeye cookery (1892), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Fruit Loar Cake. Bo One cup butter, two of brown sugar, one of New Orleans molas- ses, one of sweet milk, three eggs, five cups sifted flour, two tea-— spoons cream tartar in the flour, tea-spoon soda in the milk, table- spoon cinnamon, one nutmeg, one pound raisins, one of currants, quarter pound citron

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