Tutti Frutti Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound raisins
• 1 pound mixed nuts
• ^4 pound citron
• 5 dozen black walnuts

Method

1. 1

   Make a rich white batter, bake in layers, and while hot, fill with a mixture of chopped nuts and icing.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 59. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^4 pound citron, *4 pound crystalized cherries, few pieces of crystalized ginger, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup raisins, i/2 pound al- monds, 2 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon butter, yolks of 4 eggs. Beat butter and flour together and add to yolks of eggs, beaten well with the sugar. Pour into the scalded milk and stir over fire, to keep from burning, until thick. Take from fire until cool. Squeeze juice from pineapple and cut cherries, ginger, raisins, almonds and citron fine and add to mixture. Flavor with 10 drops of bitter almond and vanilla. Spread very thickly between cakes, making 2 layer cakes. — Mrs. C. M. Cooper. WALNUT CAKE. Two cups sugar, 3 cups of flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup of cold water, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 teaspoons of cream tartar, 4 eggs, 2 cups nuts stirred in last. — Mrs. Zollicoffer. STRIPED CAKE ( WHITE AND YELLOW) . Sift 1 quart flour with the required ibaking powder that you use. White Layers. — Cream 1 cup sugar with ^ cup butter, 2-3 cup sweet milk, 2 cups of the sifted flour. Mix the above ingredients well and fold in the well-whipped whites of 4 eggs, a liberal pinch of salt and 1 teaspoon vanilla. This will make 2 nice layers or 3 thin layers. Yellow Lay- ers.— 1 cup sugar beaten with yolks of 4 eggs, % cup butter creamed, 2-3 cup sweet milk, 2 cups of the flour, a pinch salt, 1 teaspoon extract lemon. Bake in layers, 2 or 3 as preferred ; put together yellow and white layers with the fol- lowing icing. Icing. — 2 cups sugar, 1 cup boiling water. Cook till it strings when spoon is lifted. Set off stove a few 132 LATER OAKES minutes, whip 2 whites of eggs light,, put 1 level teaspoon baking powder in the cooked sugar and whip in with the whites of eggs till it is thick enough to spread nicely. Sea- son with vanilla. — Mrs. 0. 0. White. TTJTTI FRUTTI CAKE. Make a rich white batter, bake in layers, and while hot put in filling. Filling. — Make a boiled icing, chop fine and have prepared 1 pound raisins, 1 pound mixed nuts, pick out 5 dozen black walnuts

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