Scotch Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cup butter
• two cups white sugar
• one cup milk
• four cups flour
• two heaping teaspoons baking powder
• nine eggs beaten yolks and whites separately
• one pound raisins
• one-half pound currants
• one-quarter pound citron

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter and sugar, add milk gradually, then beaten yolks of eggs, and lastly, while stirring in the flour, the whites well whipped.

2. 2

   Flavor with one teaspoon each lemon and vanilla.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven for two hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice recipes (1900), page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SCOTCH FRUIT CAKE— Mrs. J. H. Shearer One cup butter, two cups white sugar, one cup milk, four cups flour well sifted with two heaping teaspoons baking powder, nine eggs beaten yolks and whites separately, one pound raisins, one- half pound currants, one-quarter pound citron

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