{"id":2402,"date":"2026-02-15T18:41:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:41:57","slug":"old-fashioned-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/old-fashioned-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Fashioned Fruit Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>3\/4 C. butter<br \/>\n1 C. sugar<br \/>\n1\/2 C. molasses<br \/>\n1\/2 C. blackberry or grape juice<br \/>\n3\/4 C. buttermilk<br \/>\n1 C. blackberry jam<br \/>\n1 C. watermelon rind preserves chopped<br \/>\n1 C. fig preserves<br \/>\n3 C. flour<br \/>\n4 C. pecans<br \/>\n2 tsp. soda<br \/>\n8 eggs<br \/>\n2 small apples; chopped<br \/>\n1\/2 tsp. salt (optional)<br \/>\n1 pound raisins<br \/>\n1\/2 pound candied pineapple<br \/>\n1 pound cherries<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cook in a big black iron skillet lined with wax paper or a pound cake pan with a hole in  the center. Cook it on 250 degrees.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.&quot; (Psalms 107:9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/old-fashioned-fruit-cake\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}