Fruit Cake

Name: Fruit Cake
Ingredients: 1 cup butter; 1 teaspoon nutmeg; 1 pint brown sugar; 1 tablespoon cinnamon; 4 cups sour milk; 4 cups flour; 3 cups of flour; 1 cup of flour; 4 eggs; 1 scant tablespoon of dry soda over mixture the last thing; 2 lbs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients

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Fruit Cake

Ingredients

Directions

Mrs. Perrine Spellman.
4 eggs. Ya tablespoon cloves.
1*4 cups sour milk. 1 lb. raisins, and
4 cups flour, sifted 3 or 4 1 lb. currants, washed and
times. thoroughly dried. *4 lb. citron.
Cream butter and sugar; add eggs, then milk and 3 cups of flour and spices.
Mix fruit thoroughly with 1 cup of flour and add to mix- ture; sprinkle 1 scant tablespoon of dry soda over mixture the last thing.
After fruit is added, do not stir any more than necessary.
I lb. granulated
I lb. butter.
ij4 lbs. flour.
2 lbs. raisins and
i lb. currants.
% lb. citron.
y4 ib. figs.
Cakes. 225

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

851Calories

28 gProtein

27 gFat

123 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 7 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Sour Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Nutmeg	1 tsp ground (2.2g)	12
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Nutmeg + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11,917 recipes

Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,623 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,341 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Cinnamon + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together12,655 recipes

Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).