Crisco Fruit Cake Recipe

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Ingredients for Crisco Fruit Cake Recipe
  • 1½ cups vegetable shortening
  • 1 lb. seeded raisins
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 cups flour
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 wineglassful brandy
  • ½ lb. blanched and chopped almonds
  • ½ lb. English walnut meats (broken in small pieces)
  • ½ lb. stoned and chopped dates
  • 1 lb. currants
  • 1 lb. glace cherries
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • ½ cup New Orleans molasses
  • ½ cup cold black coffee
  • 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
  • 2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon powdered cloves

Instructions
  1. Cream vegetable shortening and sugar together, add eggs well beaten, beat five minutes, then add coffee, soda mixed with molasses, brandy, flour sifted with salt and spices.
  2. Now add raisins, currants, dates, cherries cut in halves, and nuts.
  3. Mix carefully and turn into vegetable shorteninged and papered tin and bake in moderate oven two and a half hours.
  4. Brandy may be omitted.
  5. Sufficient for one large cake.

 




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