White Fruit Cake (German Recipe)
From Fruit recipes, 1907
Serves 6
Presented as published in 1907. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
- Beat together one cup of butter
- two of sugar
- one-half glass white wine
- the stiff-whipped whites of eight eggs
- three cups of flour
- two teaspoons of baking powder
- one-quarter pound fine cut citron
- one-half pound chopped almonds
- one teacup of light-coloured currants
- one-half cup grated cocoanut
Method
Beat together and bake slowly about two hours, until it does not stick to the slenderest straw.
As published
This recipe was extracted from Fruit recipes (1907) by Berry, Riley Maria Fletcher Mrs., page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
WHITE FRUIT CAKE (German Recipe) Beat together one cup of butter and two of sugar; add one-half glass white wine and then the stiff-whipped whites of eight eggs. Now add gradually three cups of flour, in which two teaspoons of baking powder have been sifted, and at the last one-quarter pound fine cut citron, one-half pound chopped almonds, one teacup of light-coloured currants and one-half cup grated cocoanut
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