Plain Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup sweet milk
• 1 cup brown sugar
• ¾ cup molasses
• ½ cup butter
• 3 cups flour
• ½ pound raisins
• 1 cup currants
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 spoonful cloves
• 1 ditto cinnamon
• 1 nutmeg
• 2 eggs well beaten
• 2 spoonfifls baking powder

Method

No method was recorded for this recipe.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The New York receipt book (1882) by D.B. Dewey & Co, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

% cup butter: 4 eggs, well-beaten ; mix, bake m one lower crust. Above is for two pies. Gingerbread.— 1 cup molasses, 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 1 cup sour milk, 4 eggs, 3 cups flour, 1 tablespoonful ginger, and 1 teaspoonful soda. — Break the bread in small pieces, and soak in cold milk; when sort add 1 teaspoonful saleratus, 1 of salt, and flour for a good batter. Coffee Cake.— 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup strained coffee, 1 cup powde^S’ ^ beaten, i lb. raisins, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoonfuls baking Cider Cake.— 2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 5 eggs, lfc cups cider, with 1 tea- spoonful soda dissolved in it ; spice to taste ; 4^ cups flour, 2 cups fruit. Siiver Cake.— 14 cup butter 2 cups sugar, the whites of 8 eggs, % cup milk, o/almond^6^ ^ ^^spoo^ful soda, 1 ditto cream tartar, 1 spoonful essence Jumbles — 1 cup sugar, 1 of good butter rubbed to a cream, y2 cup sour cream, 1 well Deaten egg 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in a very little hot water: flavor with nutmeg ; sifted flour enough to make a soft dough or batter. Plain Fruit Cake.— 1 cup sweet milk, 1 cup brown sugar, 34 cup molasses, /a cup butter, 3 cups flour, y2 pound raisins, 1 cup currants, 1 teaspoonful salt 1 spoonful cloves, 1 ditto cinnamon, 1 nutmeg, 2 eggs well beaten, 2 spoonfifls baking powder

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