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Family Fruit Cake

3 cupfuls of raisins--1 pound. 4 of currants--1 pound. 1 of sugar--6 ounces. 1 of butter--6 ounces. 1 molasses--12 ounces. 2 eggs. 1 cupful of sour milk. 1 teaspoonful of soda. 4 large cupfuls of flour--18 ounces. Having prepared the fruit, make the butter soft mix it and the sugar, molasses, eggs and sour milk together in a pan, and beat well; mix the soda in the flour, put that in and beat again. Dust the fruit with flour, stir in, bake in a mold or shallow pan.

Another cake of the same sort can be made by mixing fruit in the sponge ginger-bread.