Poor Man's Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Two cups of flour
• one cup of sugar
• one-half cup of lard
• one cup of sour milk
• one teaspoon soda
• one-half cup of raisins chopped fine
• a pinch of salt
• Spice with cinnamon
• nutmeg
• and cloves to suit taste

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients and bake.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The National home cook book (1900), page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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