White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• two cups sugar
• two and one-half cups flour (before sifting)
• whites of seven eggs
• two teaspoons baking powder
• one cup sweet milk
• one pound raisins
• one pound figs
• one pound dates
• one pound blanched almonds
• quarter pound citron
• three teaspoons of cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Chop the fruit and sprinkle flour over it.

2. 2

   After mixing the cake, add the fruit and bake slowly.

3. 3

   When done and still warm, pour over it slowly one cup of sherry.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How we cook in Tennessee .. (1906) by Jackson (Tenn.). First Baptist Church. The Silver Thimble Society., page 84. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Fruit Cake. — One cup of butter, two cups sugar, two and one-half cups flour (before sifting), whites of seven eggs, two teaspoons baking powder, one cup sweet milk, one pound raisins, one pound figs, one pound dates, one pound blanched almonds, quarter pound citron, three teaspoons of cinnamon

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