White Fruit Cake, No. 1

Ingredients

• 1 cup of flour
• 3 teacupfuls cream of tartar in flour
• 1 lb pulverized sugar
• 15 eggs (whites)
• 1 teaspoonful soda in
• 1/2 lb butter
• 1 cupful sweet milk
• 1/4 lb Malaga grapes
• 1/2 lb almonds
• 3 or 4 bananas
• 1/2 lb raisins
• 1/4 lb citron
• 2 or 3 cocoanuts

Method

1. 1

   Cream the butter perfectly white.

2. 2

   Add flour after sifting three times.

3. 3

   Beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth; add last.

4. 4

   Cut the cake in seven layers, cover the first layer with icing and grated cocoanut, the next with icing, cocoanut and pineapple.

5. 5

   (Take the core and hard part out of the pineapple and chop the soft part fine.

6. 6

   Press juice out); third layer with icing, cocoanut and Malaga grapes, pulped and chopped; fourth layer, icing, cocoanut and raisins seeded and chopped fine; fifth layer, icing, cocoanut and bananas chopped fine; sixth layer, icing, cocoanut and citron chopped; seventh layer, icing, cocoanut, blanched almonds, chopped fine.

7. 7

   Then put on the bottom layer of the cake for the top, ice it all over, sprinkle with cocoanut, and ornament, now and then, with whole almonds and raisins.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new Annie Dennis cook book (1905) by Annie E. Dennis, page 128. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

White Fruit Cake, No. 1 1 It) flour 3 teacupfuls cream of 1 lb pulverized sugar tartar in flour 15 eggs (wihites) 1 teaspoonful soda in V2 lb butter 1 cupful sweet milk The quantity of fruit required: 1/4 lb Malaga grapes V2 lb almonds 3 or 4 bananas V2 lb raisins 1/4 lb citron 2 or 3 cocoanuts

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