Emily Dickinson's Black Cake

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Serves: 1 Servings

Ingredients:

1/2 lb Sugar
1/2 lb Butter
5 Eggs
1/8 pt Molasses
1/2 lb Flour
1/2 ts Baking soda
1/2 Nutmeg
1 ts Clove
1 ts Mace
1 ts Cinnamon
1/8 pt Brandy
1 lb Raisins
2/3 lb Currants
2/3 lb Citron

Instructions:
Cream sugar and butter. Add eggs and molasses. Beat well. Add flour, soda,
and spices. Add brandy, then raisins, currants, and citron.

Pour dough into 2 loaf pans [4 fruitcake pans*] lined with waxed paper and
bake 3-4 hrs at 300F [60-70 min at 325F*]. Place shallow pan of hot water
on bottom of oven, but remove for last hr of baking. [Test with
toothpick.*] Let loaves cool before removing from pan.

[*suggestions of a practiced experimenter (not myself!)]

Posted By bhsiung@uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu (Dr. Bob) On rec.food.recipes or
rec.food.cooking

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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