White Fruit Cake

Ingredients

• One cup of butter
• two cups of sugar
• one cup of sweet milk
• two and one-half cups of flour
• the whites of seven eggs
• two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder
• one pound each of seeded raisins
• one pound each of figs
• one pound each of blanched almonds
• one quarter of a pound of citron

Method

1. 1

   Mix all thoroughly before adding the fruit; add a teaspoonful of lemon extract.

2. 2

   Put baking powder in the flour and mix it well before adding it to the other ingredients.

3. 3

   Sift a little flour over the fruit before stirring it in.

4. 4

   Bake slowly for two hours and try with a splint to see when it is done.

5. 5

   A cup of grated cocoanut is a nice addition to this cake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 185. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

WHITE FRUIT CAKE. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, one cup of sweet milk, two and one-half cups of flour, the whites of seven eggs, two even teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one pound each of seeded raisins, figs and blanched al- monds, and one quarter of a pound of citron

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