White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cupful of butter
• two of sugar
• three of flour
• the whites of eight eggs
• half a wine-glass of white wine
• two teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one-fourth of a pound of citron, cut fine
• half a pound of chopped almonds
• one tea-cupful of dessicated cocoanut

Method

1. 1

   Beat the butter to a cream, and gradually beat in the sugar, and then the wine.

2. 2

   Beat the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir into the butter and sugar.

3. 3

   Add the flour, which is thoroughly mixed with the baking powder, and lastly the fruit.

4. 4

   Bake, in two loaves, forty minutes in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Fruit Cake. One cupful of butter, two of sugar, three of flour, the whites of eight eggs, half a wine-glass of white wine, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one -fourth of a pound of citron, cut fine ; half a pound of chopped almonds, one tea-cupful of dessi- cated cocoan

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