Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1912 — BEST OF ALL FRUIT CAKE [ARTICLE]

BEST OF ALL FRUIT CAKE

Recipe That Has Been Tried and Proven and Will Assure Success If Followed. ' One pound flour, browned and sifted; one pound butter, one pound sugar, 12 eggs, four pounds raisins, one pound citron, one pound crystallized cherries and pineapple mixed, one pound almonds cut fine and soaked over night in rosewater, one pound pecan meats cut small, one glass grape jelly, half glass good cordial, one glass best whisky or brandy, tablespoon each po w der e d all b pice, clnn am on and nutmeg and teaspoon powdered cloves. Soak all the fruit 12 hours in the whisky, cream together butter and sugar, add to them egg yolks beaten very light, then the cordial, spices and jelly. Put in next two teaspoons melted chocolate, next add the whites of eggs beaten stiff and part of flour. Roll the fruit in the rest of the flour and add to the mixture. Put in nuts last of all. Bake several hours, keeping a vessel of water in the oven until almost done.