Molasses Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One teacupful of butter
• one teacupful of brown sugar
• two teacupfuls of cooking molasses
• one cupful of milk
• a teaspoonful of soda
• one tablespoonful of ginger
• one tablespoonful of cinnamon
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• a little grated nutmeg
• four eggs
• five cups of sifted flour

Method

1. 1

   Work the butter and brown sugar together; next, add two teacupfuls of cooking molasses, one cupful of milk with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of cinnamon, and one teaspoonful of cloves, a little grated nutmeg.

2. 2

   Now add four eggs well beaten and five cups of sifted flour, or enough to make a stiff batter.

3. 3

   Flour a cup of raisins and one of currants; add last.

4. 4

   Bake in a very moderate oven for one hour.

5. 5

   If well covered, it will keep six months.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 185. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOLASSES FRUIT CAKE. One teacupful of butter, one teacupful of brown sugar, worked well together ; next, two teacupfuls of cooking molasses, one cupful of milk with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it, one tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of cinnamon and one teaspoonful of cloves, a little grated nutmeg. Now add four eggs well beaten and five cups of sifted flour

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