A Chocolate Fruit Cake

[from Every Woman's Cook Book by Mrs. Chas. F. Moritz (1926)]

                  Brown Fruit Cake
  1/2 cup butter                    2 eggs
    1 cup sugar                     1 teaspoon each, cinnamon,
    1 cup molasses                     cloves and allspice
    1 cup ground almonds      1 cup seedless raisins
    1 cup currants              1/2 cup grated sweet chocolate
2 1/2 cups flour                1/2 cup sour milk
  1/2 teaspoon soda

  Cream together until light butter and sugar.  Beat in eggs.  Add
molasses, salt and spices.  Add chocolate, nuts and fruit.  Beat well.
Add alternately flour and sour milk with soda stirred in it.
  Bake in biscuit pan or cake pan in very moderate oven, about fifty-
five to sixty minutes.

[notes: "seedless raisins" -- probably means white raisins.
 Use small eggs, or one extra large.
 "very moderate oven" -- probably about 300-325 degrees F.
 Another similar recipe in this book has lemon juice and vanilla, mace instead of allspice, and no
 currants or nuts.
 Yet another has pecans as the nut, raisins the only fruit, and cinnamon and cloves the only spices.]