Molasses Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cup molasses
• one and three-fourths cups light brown sugar
• I cup cold water
• i cup butter
• then add 3 eggs well beaten
• i pound of raisins
• I of currants
• one half of citron
• two table-spoonfuls of flour

Method

1. 1

   Boil the molasses, sugar and butter together, and set aside to cool, flour as thick as a pound cake, then add 3 eggs well beaten, then 1 pound of raisins, 1 of currants and one half of citron, with two tablespoonfuls of flour, mixed through the fruit.

2. 2

   Bake nearly 2 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide (1882) by M'Millan, Alexander M. D., page 109. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MOLASSES FRUIT CAKE. One cup molasses, one and three-fourths cups light brown sugar, I cup cold water, i cup butter. Boil the molasses, sugar and butter together, and set aside to cool, flour as thick as a pound cake, then add 3 eggs well beaten, then i pound of rais- ins, I of currants and one half of citron, with two table-spoonfuls of flour, mixed through the fruit. Bake nearly 2 hours. FRUIT CAKE. Put I tea-spoonful of soda in a coffee cup, add 5 tea-spoonfuls of hot water, 4 of melted butter and fill with molasses, make it pretty stiff with flour, then stir in this all it will hold of chopped raisins, Zante currants, citron, and i tea-spoonful each of cinnamon and nutmeg, and a pinch of cloves Bake from 3 to 4 hours in a very slow oven. (Put buttered paper in the bottom of the pan.) The longer this cake is kept the better it is. NO. 2. One pound each of sugar, butter and flour, 2 pounds of raisins

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