Simple Fruit Cake Recipe

Three-quarters of a pound of butter, three-quarters of a pound of sugar,

one pound of sifted flour, one-half pound of currants washed, one-half

pound of raisins stoned and chopped, one-half pound of citron cut fine,

one teaspoonful each of cloves, mace, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg,

one-half cup of milk, one-half cup of brandy, four eggs and one

teaspoonful of soda. Beat butter and sugar to a cream; add the yolks of

eggs beaten light with the spices and brandy; then the fruit rolled in

part of the flour; add the soda to the rest of the flour and stir

alternately with the milk into the other ingredients; add at the last

the whites of eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Bake two hours in a moderate

oven.

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