Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1/2 lb Sugar
1/2 lb Butter
5 Eggs
1/8 pt Molasses
1/2 lb Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 Nutmeg
1 ts Clove
1 ts Mace
1 ts Cinnamon
1/8 pt Brandy
1 lb Raisins
2/3 lb Currants
2/3 lb Citron

Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs and molasses. Beat well. Add flour,
soda, and spices. Add brandy, then raisins, currants, and citron.

Pour dough into 2 loaf pans [4 fruitcake pans*] lined with waxed
paper and bake 3-4 hrs at 300F [60-70 min at 325F*]. Place shallow
pan of hot water on bottom of oven, but remove for last hr of baking.
[Test with toothpick.*] Let loaves cool before removing from pan.

[*suggestions of a practiced experimenter (not myself!)]

Posted By bhsiung#uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dr. Bob) On
rec.food.recipes or rec.food.cooking

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