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An American Family History
 

from Aunt Pit's Recipe Box

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White Fruit Cake

  
 

from Mrs. Hill

  
 

1 cup sugar
1 cup shorting
5 eggs
2 cups flour
citeron, raisens, candied Pineapple, orange peel, candied cherries
1/4 blanched almonds
1/2 teaspoon B.P. [baking powder-added at bottom of recipe]

beat shorting
add sugar (together)
gradually beat eggs in one at a time
add flour
lastly fruit

Put half of almonds on top cake
bake slowly
start in very warm oven

no milk

 

Sometimes Aunt Pit didn't tell us the exact oven temperatures. Here's a cheat sheet.
Cool oven 250°F
Slow oven 250–350°F
Moderate oven 350–375°F
Hot oven 375–450°F
 

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H O M E
Colonial Maryland
Colonial New England
Colonial Virginia & North Carolina
Colonial Virginia & West Virginia
Quakers & Mennonites
New Jersey Baptists
 
German Lutherans
Ontario Settlers
Ohio Pioneers
Watauga Settlement
Pennsylvania Pioneers
Midwest Pioneers
Californians
Jewish Immigrants

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