Thanksgiving Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• one pound of butter
• one pound of sugar
• one pound of flour
• ten eggs, yellows and whites beaten separately
• one-half pound of citron
• two pounds of seeded raisins
• two pounds of currants
• two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder
• one teaspoonful of allspice
• one teaspoonful of cloves
• one teaspoonful of nutmeg
• one teaspoonful of mace

Method

1. 1

   Mix all ingredients, flouring the raisins and currants to prevent settling.

2. 2

   Bake in a slow oven for four hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 161. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

o teaspoonfuls of cloves and two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon; stiffen with flour. Long bread-pans are nicest in which to bake the cake. Mrs. Oliver Huff. LOAF COCOANUT CAKE. One-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one and one-half cups of flour, one rounding teaspoonful of baking-powder, two eggs, one cup of grated cocoanut and a pinch of salt; beat butter and sugar till light and creamy, add the yolks of the eggs, then the flour, salt and baking-powder CAKES. 223 sifted together alternately with the cocoanut; lastly, fold in the whites of the eggs gently, so as not to destroy their lightness. Bake in a steady oven about forty minutes. Mrs. Julia Cross. HARRISON CAKE. One cup of sugar, one cup of New Orleans molasses, one cup of but- ter, three eggs, four cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, and one pound of seedless raisins. Spice to suit taste. Put together as above. Mrs. Henrietta Hildreth. SILVER OR GOLD CAKE. A generous half-cup of butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, two full cups of sifted flour, one-half cup of sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda and the whites of eight eggs. The gold cake is made with precisely the same ingredients save that the yolks of eight eggs are used. A. O. W. CHOCOLATE LOAF CAKE. Take one and three-fourths cupfuls of sugar, two eggs, one-fourth of a cup of butter, one-half cup of sweet milk, two cups of flour, three tea- spoonfuls of baking-powder, one-quarter of a cake of chocolate dissolved in one-half cup of boiling water. Put the chocolate in last. Flavor with vanilla; stir hard. N. Gaylord. THANKSQIVINQ FRUIT CAKE. One pound each of butter, sugar and flour, ten eggs, yellows and whites beaten separately, one-half pound of citron, two pounds of seeded raisins, two pounds of currants, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder

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