Dark Fruit Cake

Name: Dark Fruit Cake
Ingredients: ½ cup molasses.; 2 cups flour.; ½ cup milk.; 2 eggs.; ½ teaspoon soda.; 1 teaspoon cinnamon.; ½ teaspoon allspice.; ¾ cup raisins seeded and cut in pieces.; ¾ cup currants.; ½ cup citron thinly sliced and cut in strips.; ¼ teaspoon clove.; ½ teaspoon lemon extract.; ¼ teaspoon mace.; ½ cup butter.; ¾ cup brown sugar.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

By Fannie Merritt Farmer

Published 1896

About

Ingredients

½ cup butter.
¾ cup brown sugar.
¾ cup

Dessert
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Follow directions for mixing butter cake mixtures. Bake in deep cake pans one and one-quarter hours.