Wedding Fruit Cake

Name: Wedding Fruit Cake
Ingredients: One pound sugar; one pound flour; one pound butter; eight eggs; two pounds raisins; one pound currants; one pound citron; one tablespoon molasses; one cup sour milk; two even teaspoons soda; one teaspoon each of spices of all kinds; flour for stiff batter

From Home dissertations, 1891

Sprinkle a little flour over the cake and frost while hot.

Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WEDDING FRUIT CAKE. One pound sugar, one pound flour, one pound butter, eight eggs, two pounds raisins, one pound currants, one pound citron, one tablespoon molasses, one cup sour milk, two even teaspoons soda, one teaspoon each of spices of all kinds ; flour for stiff batter

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