1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes

Molasses Fruit Cake Four cups of flour, one of butter, one of molasses, one of milk, four eggs, three teaspoonfuls of ginger, a teaspoonful of cloves, and nutmeg, half a pound of currants and raisins. Add the fruit last, and bake in pans in an oven not very quick.

The Southbridge Journal, Southbridge, Massachusetts, April 18, 1873


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