Honey Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Honey, 3 cups
• Vanilla, 2 teaspoons
• Butter, 1 cup
• Seeded raisins, 3 pounds
• Flour, 3 cups
• Currants, 1½ pounds
• 6 eggs
• Citron, 1 pound
• Soda, 2 teaspoons
• Candied cherries, 1 pound
• Cinnamon, 2 teaspoons
• Candied apricots, 1 pound
• Sour jelly or white grape juice, ½ cup
• Candied pineapple, 1 pound
• Ginger, 2 teaspoons
• Candied orange peel, 2 ounces
• Ground cardamom seed, 3 teaspoons
• Candied lemon peel, 2 ounces
• Cloves, 2 teaspoons

Method

1. 1

   Cut all the candied fruit except the cherries into small pieces.

2. 2

   Place the fruit in a large dish and sift over it one-half the flour, mixing thoroughly.

3. 3

   Sift the soda with the remaining flour.

4. 4

   Bring the honey and the butter to the boiling point and while still hot add the spices.

5. 5

   When the mixture is cool, add the well-beaten yolks of the eggs, then the flour and grape juice or jelly, and the well-beaten whites.

6. 6

   Finally, add the fruit.

7. 7

   Divide dough into three or four parts and put into buttered tins covered with buttered paper tied loosely over the top.

8. 8

   Steam for five hours, remove the paper, and bake in a very slow oven for an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Use and preparation of food (1919) by United States. Federal Board for Vocational Education., page 104. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

HONEY FRUIT CAKE. Honej', 3* cups. Vauilla, 2 teaspoons. Butter, 1 cup. Seeded raisins, 3 pounds. Flour, 3 cups. Currants, 1* pounds. 6 eggs. Citron, 1 pound. Soda, 2 teaspoons. Candied cherries, 1 pound. Cinnamon, 2 teaspoons. Candied apricots, 1 pound. Sour jelly or wliite grape juice, * cup. Candied pineapple, 1 pound. Ginger, 2 teaspoons. Candied orange peel, 2 ounces. Ground cardamom seed, 3 teaspoons. Candied lemon peel, 2 ounces. Cloves, 2 teaspoon

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