Rich Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• Twelve units flour
• 8 of brown sugar
• 4 of butter
• 4 of manukha raisins
• 4 of sultanas
• 4 of currants
• 1 sliced almonds
• 1 sliced peel
• a little nutmeg
• 4 units eggs
• j baking soda
• 4 or 6 units of milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix the soda with the flour, add the sugar, and rub in the butter.

2. 2

   Beat the yolks and whites separately, and mix rapidly with the flour, using 4 or 6 units of milk to make it moist enough.

3. 3

   The batter must be very stiff.

4. 4

   Butter the mould well, line it thickly with bread-crumbs, put in the batter, and bake for one and a half hours in a quick oven.

5. 5

   It should be quite brown all through.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The complete Indian housekeeper & cook (1898) by Flora Annie Webster Steel, page 231. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Twelve units flour, 8 of brown sugar, 4 of butter, 4 of manukha raisins, 4 of sultanas, 4 of currants, 1 sliced almonds, 1 sliced peel, a little nutmeg, 4 units eggs, j baking soda. Mix the soda with the flour, add the sugar, and rub in the butter, add the flour. Beat the yolks and whites sepai'ately, and mix rapidly with the flour, using 4 or 6 units of milk

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.