Noel Fruit Cake
From The Rural cook book, 1907
Serves 16
May be iced or not.
Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Rural cook book (1907), page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one teaspoonful of ^oda, tivo of 98 THE RURAL COOK BOOK. cream of tartar, one tablespoonful ot cornstarch made smooth in a little milk, two cupfuls of flour. Bake in thin sheets and put together with boiled sugar frosting, jelly, cocoanut or any other rich filling desired, finish the top with the boiled sugar frosting made by boiling together a cupful of sugar and one of water until it will turn creamy white and thick on being stirred. This is quite as delicious as the frosting made from the whites of eggs. Noel Fruit Cake.— This contains neither butter nor eggs. One pound fat salt pork chopped tine, one cupful brown sugar, one cupful New Or- leans molasses in which is dissolved otje teaspoonful of soda, one pound each of raisins, currants and figs chopped fine, one-fourth pound of citron chopped fine, one wineglass of coffee (substituted for brandy), ZYi cupfuls of flour well browned
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