During Holiday Nights at Greenfield Village, this recipe features a twist on an old holiday favorite … fruit cake. The cake was baked and displayed at the historic Edison Homestead — the home of Thomas Edison’s grandparents — built about 1815 in Vienna, Ontario, Canada.

White Fruit Cake

2 cups dried apricots 2 cups white raisins
2/3 cup candied cherries 2/3 cup orange peel
2/3 cup citron 1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel 4 cups sifted cake flour
1 ½ cups butter 1 ½ cups sugar
8 eggs unbeaten 1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder

Chop fruit and nuts and dredge in half the flour. Cream butter and lemon rind; add sugar and cream well. Beat in eggs one at a time, beating well after addition. Sift remaining flour, salt and baking powder. Add to creamed mixture. Add dredged fruit. Blend well. Pour into greased paper lined loaf pans and bake in slow oven for 1 ½ hours. Makes four cakes.

As adapted from Old Recipes Arranged for Homemakers, Otto Naylor