Pork Fruit Cake
Dispersed four-surface Sheet I and Sheet 2 set
Pork Fruit Cake. Sheet I
Yield: This makes 3 - 4x8 inches cakes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1½ cups brown sugar
- ½ cup light molasses
- 4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups raisins
- 1½ cups currants
- 1 cup pitted dates, sliced
- 1 cup Citron, chopped
- ⅔ cup Candied Cherries
Directions
- Sift dry ingredients.
Notes
- plenty sugar / Cinnamon on top / of butter.
Pork fruit Cake
Ingredients
- ingredient names in the Sheet 2 method, but no full quantities because Sheet 1 is absent
Directions
- 1. Put pork through food grinder 3 times. Pour boiling water over it. Stir until Creamy. let stand until lukewarm.
- 2. Add sugars + molasses, beat well.
- 3. Sift flour, spices, baking powder, soda & salt together. Take out about 1 cupful and mix with nutmeats + fruit. Add to pork mixture; Add flavoring + remaining dry ingredients. Mix well.
- 4. Bake in greased loaf pans, lined with wax paper in a slow oven, for 1 hour.
Timing: 1 hour
Temperature: boiling water; lukewarm; slow oven; cool place
Equipment: food grinder; loaf pans; wax paper; slow oven
Notes
- The flavor of the Cake improves after storing a few days in a cool place.
As written
Sheet 2.
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