Fruit Cake
- Title
- Fruit Cake
- Subject
- flour
- baking powder
- salt
- seeded raisins
- currants
- figs
- dates
- orange peel
- citron
- lemon peel
- almond meat
- cloves
- cinnamon
- ginger
- nutmeg
- brown sugar
- butter
- Crisco
- eggs
- molasses
- baking soda
- brandy
- wine
- Description
- Fruit Cake - M Rader
a four 3 times
5 cups flour
3 teaspoon baking powder
2 lb seeded raisins
1 lb currents
1 lb figs
1 lb dates
1/4 lb orange peeling
1/4 lb critton
1/4 lb lemon peeling
1 cup alomds meat
2 teaspoons cloves
2 " cinnmon
2 " guinger
1 " nutmeg
1 small glass brandy or
2 " wine
1 teaspoon salt
Back:
3 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup of butter or crisco
8 eggs. first 4 eggs + then 4
1/2 cup black molassas
+ 1 teaspoon soda in
molassas.
2 hours in slow oven
about 5- cakes.
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# Fruit Cake (M. Rader)
*Recipe makes about 5 cakes.*
## Ingredients
- 5 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 lb seeded raisins
- 1 lb currants
- 1 lb figs
- 1 lb dates
- 1/4 lb orange peel
- 1/4 lb citron
- 1/4 lb lemon peel
- 1 cup almond meat
- 2 tsp cloves
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 tsp ginger
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 3 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cup butter or Crisco
- 8 eggs
- 1/2 cup black molasses
- 1 tsp baking soda (dissolved in molasses)
- 1 small glass brandy or 2 small glasses wine
## Instructions
1. Add first 4 eggs, then the remaining 4 eggs.
2. Dissolve 1 tsp baking soda into the molasses.
3. Combine all ingredients together.
4. Bake 2 hours in a slow oven.
5. Makes about 5 cakes. - Source
- Collection of Recipes Handwritten & Typed, Clipped, Cards, Pamphlet (eBay)
- Date
- 1930s
- Contributor
- M Rader
- Rights
- Personal/Family
- Format
- Typed recipe card
- Identifier
- RCA0002-20260509-0028
- Coverage
- Iowa, US
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Tags
Citation
“Fruit Cake,” Recipe Card Archive, accessed June 28, 2026, https://recipecardarchive.com/items/show/398.