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Grooms Fruit Cake

cake
From:
Nina Roberts
Time:
250° - 2-2.5 hours
Ingredients
  • 1 lb. butter
  • 1 cup molasses
  • 1 lb. flour
  • 1 tsp mace
  • 3 lbs. raisins
  • 1 tsp cloves
  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 cup tart jelly
  • 1 cup cocoa
  • 2 tsp nutmeg
  • 10 eggs (separated)
  • 2 oranges - juice and grated rind
  • 1 cup sliced Glacé cherries
  • 1 cup sliced candied pineapple
  • 1 1/4 lbs. brown sugar
  • 1 lemon - juice and grated rind
  • 1 lb. citron
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 lbs. currants
  • 1 tsp soda
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
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Steps
  1. Cream butter; add brown sugar. Cream until smooth. Add well beaten egg yolks, juices and grated rind. Mix thoroughly.
  2. Sift 1 lb. flour, measure and sift the spices, salt and baking soda.
  3. Combine raisins, currants, citron, pineapple, and cherries. Add 3 1/2 cups flour. Mix thoroughly.
  4. Combine jelly, molasses and cocoa. Adsd alternately with dry ingredients to first mixture.
  5. Add fruits. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
  6. Oil 4 round pans, graduate in size - largest 12 inches in diameter.
  7. Line with oiled wax paper.
  8. FIll 2/3 full. Bake in slow oven 250° for 2-2.5 hours.
  9. Cool in pans. Decorate as desired.
  10. Makes 12 lbs. of cake. Can also bake in flat pans, then cut into squares and individually wrap.