GRANDMOTHER'S FRUIT CAKE (BAKED FOR MARY'S WEDDING)
1 pound butter.
1 pound sugar.
1 pound flour.
2 pounds raisins.
2 pounds currants.
Spices of all kinds.
1/4 pound thinly sliced citron.
8 eggs.
1 tablespoonful molasses.
1 cup sour milk.
1 teaspoonful soda.
Mix together in ordinary manner. Cream butter and sugar, add yolks of
eggs, sour milk and soda; add flour alternately with stiffly beaten
whites of eggs. Lastly, the well-floured fruit. Bake two hours in a
moderate oven. This quantity makes one very large cake, or two medium
sized ones, and will keep one year. Line inside of pan with
well-greased heavy paper to prevent bottom of cake baking too hard.
Aunt Sarah never cut this cake until one month from time it was baked,
as it improves with age and may be kept one year.
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