Poor Man's Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of fat salt pork
• One pound of raisins
• Three cupfuls of coffee (hot)
• One table-spoonful of cinnamon
• Four cupfuls of sugar
• One tea-spoonful of cloves
• One cupful of currants
• Seven and a-half cupfuls of flour
• One cupful of figs

Method

1. 1

   Chop the fat pork very fine, and pour over it the boiling coffee; let the coffee cool slightly, and add the sugar.

2. 2

   Chop the figs coarsely, seed and chop the raisins, and wash and dry the currants; then put the fruit all together, and sift over it a little of the flour.

3. 3

   Add the spices to the rest of the flour and stir into the coffee and sugar.

4. 4

   When the mixture is well beaten, add the fruit, and bake in one loaf on buttered paper for an hour.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 16 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 227. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POOR man's fruit cake. One pound of fat salt pork. One pound of raisins. Three cupfHls of coffee (hot). One table-spoonful of cinnamon. Four cupfuls of sugar. One tea-spoonful of cloves One cupful of currants. Seven and a-half cupfuls of f^our. One cupful of figs

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