White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• 1 pound sugar
• 1 pound flour
• ½ pound butter
• Whites of 12 eggs
• 2 pounds citron
• 2 pounds almonds
• 1 large cocoanut, grated

Method

1. 1

   Add 1 tablespoon of soda and 2 of cream of tartar to flour and sift.

2. 2

   Cream butter and sugar, and then add eggs, which have been beaten separately, and add flour alternately with whites.

3. 3

   Beat well; then add lightly one-half of fruit, and put remainder in layers with the mixture in cake-mould.

4. 4

   Bake slowly and carefully.

5. 5

   Have almonds blanched and cut, and citron mixed with flour, cut in thin strips; cocoanut grated.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Blue grass cook book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE FRUIT CAKE Miss Elise White 1 pound sugar, 1 pound flour, f pound butter, Whites of 12 eggs, 2 pounds citron, 2 pounds almonds, 1 large cocoanut, grated

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