Molasses Fruit Cake
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A historic early American dish of teacupful of butter, teacupful of brown sugar, teacupfuls of cooking molasses, milk and soda. Adapted from Molasses Fruit Cake, from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887).
Adapted from Molasses Fruit Cake, in The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/molasses-fruit-cake.md.
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Work butter and brown sugar well together
add two teacupfuls of cooking molasses, one cupful of milk with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it
add one tablespoonful of ginger, one tablespoonful of cinnamon and one teaspoonful of cloves, a little grated nutmeg
add four eggs well beaten and five cups of sifted flour, or enough to make a stiff batter
Flour a cup of raisins and one of currants
add last
Bake in a very moderate oven one hour
Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)