Pork Fruit Cake

Ingredients

1 pound fat, salt pork chopped fine. Pour over it 1 pint boiling water. Add:
2 cupfuls brown sugar
1 cupful molasses
2 pounds of raisins, seeded and chopped
2 pounds of currants
1 pound citron, shredded
1 tablespoonful cinnamon
1 teaspoonful cloves
2 teaspoonfuls cream-tartar
1 teaspoonful soda, 1 nutmeg grated
6 heaping cupfuls of flour measured before sifting

Directions

The fruit can be reduced in quantity if liked, and more flour added to make the batter stiff enough. 1 wine glass of rose water or the juice of 1 lemon may be added at the last. Mix altogether, adding the fruit well dredged with flour, and the spices and rose water or lemon juice, last of all. Bake slowly. Try with a splint. This, if kept in a stone jar, will keep moist two months.