White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One pound of white sugar
• i pound of flour
• Yz pound of butter
• whites of 12 eggs
• 2 pounds of citron (cut thin)
• 1 large cocoanut (grated)
• 1 pound of blanched almonds
• 3 teaspoons of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and flour, and then mix in one-third of the fruit.

2. 2

   Mix in the rest as you put the batter in the mould, making a layer of batter and one of fruit.

3. 3

   Bake in a slow oven.

4. 4

   This will keep one month.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The way to the heart (1905) by Carrie Pickett Moore, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Fruit Cake. One pound of white sugar, i pound of flour, Yz pound of butter, whites of 12 eggs, 2 pounds of citron (cut thin), i large cocoanut (grated), i oound of blanched almonds, 3 teaspoons of baking powder. Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and flour, and then mix in one-third of the fruit. Mix in the rest as you put the batter in the mould, making a layer of batter and one of fruit. Bake in a slow oven. This will keep one month. Black Fruit Cake. One pound of flour, i pound of sugar, lYz pounds of butter, 13 eggs, 4 pounds of raisms, i^ pounds of currants, i pound of blanched almonds,

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