10A MAIL TRIBUNE, MeoW, Oregon, Sunday, December 7, 1 938
Old Fruit Cake Recipe
Adapted to Electronics
Br CLAIRE COX
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New York -(UPD- When a
housewife boasts of using a
recipe handed down in her
family for generations, she
has more to brag about than
many persons might think.
At any rate, that is the way
I feel about my family's reci
pe for fruit cake.
Adapting my great-grandmother's
recipe she always
used the old-fashioned term
"receipt" to a modern gas
oven with thermostat was a
neat culinary trick.
She did her baking in a
Kansas farmhouse, first on a
wood stove and later with coal
or oil for fuel. She had an
enormous kitchen, with water
supplied by a cistern pump
over the sink. There was no
refrigeration then and elec
tricity was available only for
lights.
I do my baking, in a tiny
apartment house kitchen
crammed with every work
saving device I can fit into it.
The fruitcake recipe, as
passed on to me by my grand
mother, listed most of the
basic ingredients in pounds or
ounces, and gave no baking
degrees or time. Grandmother
said she just knew when the
oven was right.
That meant a do-it-yourself
course in weights and meas
ures for me.
Recipe Adapted
I learned that four cups
make a pound of flour and
there are two cups to a pound
of sugar. An ounce of nutmeg
or other spice is equal to one
tablespoon.
But once I got started,
everything was much easier
for me than for my predeces
sors. I can remember when fruit
cake baking time came at our
house when I was a child. It
took several persons at least
a day to cut up all the candied
fruits and shell the nuts. The
grape jelly had to be made to
put in the cake.
The eggs were beaten by
hand. The butter and sugar
were creamed with a big
wooden spoon, not an electric
mixer. And that's hard work.
The pans were lined with
heavily greased brown wrap
ping paper.
Uses I4xer
But when I turn to making
fruitcal'-. I go to the nearest
supermcet and buy four
ounce jars of candied fruits
already cut into tiny pieces, j
The nuts come shelled. My
mixer does the most tedious
part of the task.
I put the batter into dis
posable pans bought at the
five-and-10 cent store or left
over from purchases of store-
made cakes in tins. I line the
pans with aluminum foil and
grease it. I leave enough of
the foil overlapping so it can
be folded over the cake after
it is done.
My oven has a thermostat,
and I have a timer to alert me
at crucial times during the
baking.
Now for the recipe. Here it
is, freely translated from the
pre - electronic kitchen lan
guage of cooking
12 eggs
1 pound butter
. 2 cups sugar
4 cups flour
2 pounds seedless raisins
2 pounds currants
1 pound citron (4 jars)
Vt pound orange (1 jar)
Vz pound pineapple (2 jars)
Vz pound candied cherries
(2 jars)
V pound lemon peel (1 jar)
Vz pint molasses
1 pound whole pecans
1 pound almonds
1 tablespoon each nutmeg,
mace, cinnamon
IVz jars, any commercial
- grape jelly
Vz cup sherry
Vz cup brandy
How To Mix
Cream butter and sugar,
and beat in eggs one by one.
Blend in molasses, jelly and
spices, then add flour alter
nately with sherry - brandy
mixture and blend in. Add
other ingredients and blend
thoroughly.
This makes 10 to 12 pounds
in 8 to 10 small loaf pans.
The instructions given to
me merely added: "Bake in
loaf pans in slow oven in pans
of water. Cover at first."
That was not scientific
enough for my electronic
kitchen, so I consulted cook
books and clipped fruitcake
recipes from newspapers and
magazines. '
With their help and a bit of
experimenting, I determined
that a "slow oven" would be
250-300 degrees and the cook
ing time would be 3 to 4
hours. I cover the pans with
baking sheets for the first 30
to 45 minutes. This allows the
rake to steam.
The pans should be placed
in larger pans of water, which
must be replenished periodi-
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Cave Junction The Illinois
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Easy and Thrifty
To add spice to pears for
dessert, try gingers, cinnamon
or cloves.
cally up to the last hour, when
the water may be allowed to
evaporate.
May Be Underdone ,
According to my grand
mother, who baked fruitcakes
every year for nearlv 50
years, it is far better that they
be underdone than cooked too
long. She says that if a fruit
cake seems a little douehv.
toss it in a double boiler,
steam it and serve it with
hard sauce, as though it were
plum pudding.
One modern convenienre
that enhances fruitcake today
is the deep freeze, something
as unheard of as atom bombs
in greatgrandma's day.
After the cakes are baked.
sprinkle a little wine or
brandy on them, wrap them
snuggly and put them in the
freezer. They will stay moist
until time to thaw and eat
them.
All of this adds up to a cake
that is bound to be good, just
because of the ingredients.
I'm still NOT convinced that
it is any better made with
modern conveniences. B u t
there is no doubt that it is a
lot less work.
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2:30 p.m. - Degree of Honor
Past Presidents' dinner, with
Mrs. Matilda Dietrich, 939
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Monday:
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Retired Teachers' association,
home of Mrs. Amos Willits,
129 Almond st., Ashland.
6:30 p.m. - Medford Neigh
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7 p.m.-Mariners club, First
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8 p.m. - Degree of Honor
lodge, Girls Community club.
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Derby Home Extension unit,
home of Mrs. Edward Burg.
10:30 a.m. - Oak Grove
Home Extension unit, home of
Mrs. Kenneth Williams, 1060
Stewart ave.
12:30 p.m. - Central Point
First Presbyterian church as
sociation ol .Women, at
church.
12:30 p.m. - First Presby
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of Womens' association: Beth
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East Jackson st.; Charity, Mrs.
C. W. Lemery, 200 Windsor
ave:; Faith, at church; Grace,
Mrs. Garner Haupert, 222 Val
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rd.; Mercy, Mrs. Otto J.
Frohnmayer, 1656 Spring st.;
Temple, Mrs. Al James. 1 42R
Euclid ave.; and Trinity, Mrs.
James Rowan, 828 Minnesota
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at church.
7:30 D.m. First Prpshvtor-
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womens association: Candle
light, Mrs. R. J. Custance.
1310 West Main st., and Ves
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257 Windsor ave.
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Christmas party, First Metho
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auxiliary, Legion hall.
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Military Order of Lady Bugs,
Veterans hall.
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Extension unit, home of Mrs.
Willard Huffman, Prospect.
11 a.m. Medford Town-
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123V& West Main st.
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Country club.
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Medical auxiliary, with . Mrs.
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