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To Preserve Fruit Cake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wrap the fruit cake loaves closely in thoroughly buttered white paper and tie them up.

  2. Place the wrapped loaves in a stone jar and cover it.

  3. Occasionally, open the jar and leave it uncovered for five to ten minutes.

  4. This method can keep the cake fresh for over a year.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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