Perfection Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• ee cups Flour
• teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon Nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon Cloves
• Pinch of Mace
• Pinch of Ginger
• 1 cup Raisins
• 1% cup Currants
• 2 cups chopped dried Apples
• 1 cup Molasses
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup sweet Milk
• 1 cup Butter

Method

1. 1

   Soak apples over night; chop and boil one hour in molasses, add creamed butter and sugar, milk, flour, baking powder, spices, extracts and fruits.

2. 2

   Let stand ten minutes and bake slowly in moderate oven.

3. 3

   Half teaspoon Mapleine adds to flavor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Crescent cook book (1920) by Ohio) Crescent Manufacturing Company (Fremont, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PERFECTION FRUIT CAKE — ps ee cups Flour teaspoons Crescent Baking Powder 1 teaspoon Cinnamon 1 teaspoon Nutmeg 1 teaspoon Cloves Pinch of Mace Pinch of Ginger 1 cup Raisins 1% cup Currants Soak apples over night; chop and boil one hour in molasses, add creamed butter and sugar, milk, flour, baking powder, spices, ex- tracts and fruits. Let stand ten minutes and bake slowly in moderate oven. Half teaspoon Mapleine adds to flavor. 2 cups chopped dried Apples 1 cup Molasses 1 cup Sugar 1 cup sweet Milk 1 cup Butter

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