Molasses Fruit Cake
1½ pound flour.
1 pound powdered sugar.
1 cup of molasses.
1 cup sour cream.
5 eggs, beaten very light.
1 pound of raisins, seeded and cut into thirds.
1 teaspoonful cinnamon and cloves.
½ grated nutmeg.
½ teaspoonful ginger.
¾ pound butter.
1 full teaspoonful soda, dissolved in hot water.
Cream butter and sugar; warm the molasses slightly and beat into this with spices and cream. Add the yolks of the eggs, stir in the flour and the whites alternately, the soda-water, then the fruit, well dredged with flour. Beat all together vigorously for at least three minutes before putting into well-buttered tins to be baked.
It will require long and careful baking, the molasses rendering it liable to burn.