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THANKSGIVING FRUIT CAKE
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THANKSGIVING FRUIT CAKE

12 ingredients 4 steps internet_archive
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

620
Calories
20g
Protein
7g
Fat
112g
Carbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 4 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Grape 1/2 cup (76g) 62
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Brandy not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • six pounds flour
  • four pounds raisins
  • half pound citron
  • one pint yeast
  • two glasses wine
  • two glasses brandy
  • six eggs
  • one plate
  • nine o'clock in the evening
  • twelve add another third
  • eleven o'clock
  • seven loaves

Directions

1

Mrs. Woodworth, Springfield, Mass.

2

Six pounds flour, three of butter, three and a half of sugar, an ounce mace, two glasses wine, two glasses brandy, four pounds raisins, half pound citron, six eggs, one pint yeast, small teaspoon soda put in 'at last moment. After tea, take all the flour, (except one plate for dredging raisins), a small piece butter, and a quart or more of milk, and mix like biscuit ; then mix butter and sugar, and, at nine o'clock in the evening, if sufificiently light, put one- third of butter and sugar into dough; at twelve add another third, and very early in the morning the remainder ; about

3

82 THE BUCKEYE COOK BOOK.

4

eleven o'clock, if light enough, begin kneading, and corltinue for an hour, adding meanwhile all the other ingredients. This will make seven loaves.

By Women of the First Congregational Church (Marysville, Ohio) · Recipe sourced from internet_archive

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