This section is from the book "Neighborhood Cook Book", by Circle No. 5, Women's Union, Hemenway Methodist Church. Also available from Amazon: Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking.
1 cup New Orleans molasses, 2 cups granulated sugar. 1 1/2 cups strong black coffee, 1 lb. fat salt pork, 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 1 1/4 lb. citron, 1 heaping tsp. soda, 1 tbsp. allspice. 1 tbsp. cloves, 1 tbsp. cinnamon, salt.
Chop the salt pork fine and pour over it the boiling coffee. Let cool and add other ingredients. Add flour to mix stiff. Nuts and eggs may be add if desired.
- Mrs. Bliss Langill.
1 lb. of fat pork (chopped fine and dissolved in 1 pt. boiling water), 3 cups brown sugar. 1 cup molasses, 1 lb. raisins, 1 lb. currants, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 each of cloves and soda, 2 tsp. cream of tartar. 2 nutmegs (grated), 7 cups of flour. Bake very slowly.
- Mrs. Edwin Price.
 
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