President's Fruit Cake (Very Good)

Ingredients

• 3/4 lb butter
• 1 lb sugar (brown)
• 1 lb flour (brown)
• 12 eggs beaten separately
• 5 lb seeded raisins
• 1 1/2 lb shredded citron peel
• 1 lb crystallized cherries
• 1 lb crystallized diced pineapple
• 1 lb pecans
• 1 lb blanched almonds cut fine
• 1 glass grape jelly
• 2 teaspoonfuls melted chocolate
• 1 scant tablespoonful nutmeg
• 1/2 tablespoonful allspice
• 1 scant teaspoonful cloves
• 1 glass grape juice
• 2 teaspoonful rose water

Method

1. 1

   Soak almonds overnight in rose water and fruit in grape juice, cream butter and sugar, add well beaten yolks of eggs, then spices, grape jelly and chocolate, add whites of eggs, and part of flour, roll fruit in rest of flour, add nuts last bake 4 hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Fredericksburg home kitchen cook book (1921), page 46. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

President's Fruit Cake. (Very Good.) T lb butter; 1 lb sugar (brown) ; 1 lb flour (brown- ed and sifted 3 times) ; 12 eggs beaten separately ; 5 lb seeded raisins ; iy2 lb shredded citron peel ; 1 lb crystallized cherries ; 1 lb crystallized diced pineapple ; 1 lb pecans; 1 lb blanched almonds cut fine; 1 glass grape jelly; 2 teaspoonfuls melted chocolate; 1 scant tablespoonful nutmeg ; % tablespoonful allspice ; 1 scant teaspoonful cloves; 1 glass grape juice, and 2 teaspoon- ful rose water

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