Fruit Gingerbread

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds of flour
  • 3/4 pound of butter
  • 1 pound of coffee sugar
  • 1 pound of raisins
  • 2 cupfuls of molasses
  • 1 pound of currants
  • 1/2 cupful of sour cream or milk
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 teasponful of soda
  • 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
  • 2 tablespoonfuls of ginger
  • 1 teaspoonful of cloves

Directions

Cream the butter and sugar, warm the molasses and add them together with the beaten yolks, then the soda dissolved in the milk, the flour, spice and lastly the beaten whites. Dredge the fruit with flour and add, beating all together well. Bake in 2 loaves. This cake will keep a long time.