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WHITE FRUIT CAKE
First Part:
Prepare fruit - wash and dry on towel.
2 lbs. white raisins
2 lbs. seedless raisins
4 boxes red and green cherries (2 each) (Cut not
to fine)
1 lb. citron peel
1 Ib. almonds cut in two
3 boxes mixed cut fruit
2 boxes pineapple rings (cut not fine)
Mix all this with 1/2 cup flour.
Second Part:
1 can crushed pineapple
Cream 3/4 lb. butter
2 cups white sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp. lemon extract
1 tbsp. almond extract
1 pkg. fine coconut
2 tsp. baking powder
% tsp. salt
2 cups flour ,
nix all second part in a bowl, then pour over
fruit and mix.
Cook slowly at 275 degrees for three hours and
be sure you have a dish of water in oven.
(This makes a wedding cake size.)
By Mrs. Alma Mackinnon,
Kincardine.
LIGHT FRUITCAKE FOR CHRISTMAS
1 lb. butter
3.cups white sugar'
8 eggs
1 lb. mixed fruit
1 lb. coconut
1 Ib. red and green candied cherries,
1 lb. pineapple rings
3 ib. bleached raisins
12 oz. jar red maraschino cherries
1 can crushed pineapple
1/2 Ib. Brazil nuts
1/2 lb. blanched almonds
juice of one orange
lMbsp. vanilla
1/2 tsp. salt •
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. corn syrup
Cut fruit, chop nuts and let stand over night in
the juice of 1 orange. Cream butter and sugar.
Add egg yolks and all liquids.
Sift together dry ingredients. Use 1 cup to coat
fruit mixture.
Add floured fruit to creamed mixture and 'mix
well.
Beat egg whites until stiff and add last.
Bake at 250 degrees F. for 3 to 5 hours. Place a
pan of hot water in the oven for extra moisture.
This is an excellent recipe for"Christmas cake
or weddings or anniversaries. It yields about 10
pounds Or more and will fill three wedding cake
pans.
By Mrs. June Gilchrist,
BR 5
Lucknow.
WHITE CHRISTMAS CAKE
2 cups white sugar
1 cup sweet milk
1/2 pound well creamed butter
1 pound white raisins
7 egg whites beaten stiff
Mix together above ingredients well.
Then add:
1/4 lb.'citron peel
1/4 Ib. lemon peel
1/2 Ib. candied cherries (red and green)
1/2 Ib. coloured pineapple rings
1 lb. almonds (skinned)
21/2 cups flour or a little more and put some over
fruit
21/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 lbs. fruit mix (Christmas type)
Bake in medium oven 21/2 hours. Mix first
ingredients together then the remainder after
the fruit has been mixed with a little flour. Fold
in egg whites last.
Mrs. Robert J. Cook
Goderich, Ont.
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