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Molasses Fruit Cake
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Ingredients:
1 cup unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups cooking molasses
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg
4 eggs
5 cups flour, sifted
1 cup raisins
1 cup dried currants
Preparation:
- Mix
butter with
brown sugar until is worked well together.
- Mix two
cups of cooking molasses with all the spices and gradually add to the
butter mixture.
- Add milk
with a teaspoon of soda dissolved in it to the butter mixture.
- Now add
four eggs well beaten and five cups of sifted flour,
or enough to make a stiff batter.
- Flour a
cup of raisins and one of currants;
add last.
- Bake in
a very moderate oven one hour.
NOTE: If well
covered will keep six months.
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