Plain Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• Two tea-spoonfuls of cinnamon
• Two cupfuls of brown sugar
• Two tea-spoonfuls of cloves
• One cupful of molasses
• Two tea-spoonfuls of mace
• One cupful of strong coffee
• One nutmeg (grated)
• Four and a-half cupfuls of flour
• Two pounds of raisins
• Four eggs
• Three-quarters of a pound of citron
• o tea-spoonfuls of soda
• Two pounds of currants

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a cream and add the beaten yolks of the eggs.

2. 2

   Heat the coffee and stir in the soda.

3. 3

   Combine the coffee with the molasses, then add to the butter and sugar.

4. 4

   Sift the spices and flour together; seed and chop the raisins; clean the currants; cut the citron.

5. 5

   Sift a little flour over the fruit, stir the rest into the mixture, and add the fruit.

6. 6

   Lastly, add the beaten egg whites.

7. 7

   Bake in one large or two medium-sized tins for an hour and a half in a slow oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 11 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 226. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLAIN FRUIT-CAKE. One cupful of butter. Two tea-spoonfuls of cinnamon. Two cupfuls of brown sugar. Two tea-spoonfuls of cloves. One cupful of molasses. Two tea-spoonfuls of mace. 520 THE PATTERN COOK-BOOK. One cupful of strong coffee. One nutmeg (grated). Four and a-half cupfuls of flour. Two pounds of raisins. Four eggs. Three-quarters of a pound of citron, o tea-spoonfuls of soda. Two pounds of currants

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