White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One pound flour
• one pound sugar
• one pound butter
• one dozen eggs
• one wine-glass each brandy and wine
• one and three-fourths teaspoonfuls powdered mace
• two pounds citron, cut fine
• one-half pound shelled almonds, cut fine
• two cocoanuts run through meat chopper
• one-half pound carded cherries
• one fourth pound candied ginger
• juice of one and one half lemon

Method

1. 1

   To mix, cream butter and sugar, add yolks, then milk, next flour, then the spices, add whites of eggs, last the fruits and wine and brandy.

2. 2

   Bake in a cool oven three hours to a light brown, not dark.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

One pound flour, ' * Swan 's DoAvn, ' ' one pound sugar, one pound butter, one dozen eggs, one Avine-glass each brandy and wine, one and three-f ourtlis teaspoonful powdered mace, two pounds citron, cut fine, one-half pound shelled almonds, cut fine, tAvo cocoanuts run through meat chopper, one- half pound carded cherries, one fourth pound candied ginger and orange peel, juice of one and one half lemon

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