How To Make Spice Cake

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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.

How To Make Spice Cake

3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup butter, 1 cup sour milk, 1/4 cup molasses. 2 tsp. soda, 1 cup raisins, 1 full pint flour. Spice to taste. - Mrs. D. L. Miller.

Dark Spice Cake

1 1/2 cups sugar, creamed with 1/2 cup butter or lard. Add l 1/2 cup thick sour milk with 1 tsp. soda dissolved in it, 2 eggs well-beaten, then 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 cup raisins, and 1 tsp. each of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Bake in moderate oven about 40 min. in 2 loaves or long flat pan. - Mrs. L. Shellberg.

Spice Cake

1/2 cup chopped figs, 1/2 cup seeded raisins. Pour over these 1 cup boiling water in which 1 tsp. soda has been dissolved, and let cool. Add 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter, creamed. Then 1/2 cup flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 4 egg yolks beaten light, 2 egg whites? beaten stiff, 1 tsp. each of nutmeg and cinnamon, 1/2 cup chopped nuts. Bake in flat pan. Use white icing.

- Mrs.W. A. Brodkorb.

Spice Cookies

2 cups sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup shortening, 2 eggs, 1 tbsp. vinegar, 2 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. ginger, 1 tsp. soda.

If a soft cookie is desired, leave out the vinegar.

- Mrs. A. H. Graves.

Spice Cake

1/3 cup soft Crisco, 1 1/3 cups brown sugar, 3 eggs (save the whites of 2 for icing), 3/4 cup milk. Sift together 2 cups flour, 3 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. each of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice. Add raisins, figs, or dates. To be thrown together and beaten 3 min. Use brown sugar icing. - Helen Evans.

Spice Cake

3/4 cup butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp. soda (dissolved in 1 cup milk), 1/2 cup maple syrup, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 1 tsp. cloves, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tsp. grated nutmeg, pinch salt, 2 1/2 to 3 cups flour. Mix in the order given, adding the spices to the flour. Bake in muffin pans. - Mrs. D. J. Bierwert.

Spice Cake

1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup shortening. 1 egg, 1 cup sour milk, 1 tbsp. molasses, 2 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1/2 tsp. each of nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves, 1 cup raisins. Mix dry ingredients and stir into the beaten egg, milk, molasses and melted shortening. Add raisins. Bake in medium oven. Suitable for cup cakes.

- Miss Mabel Gardiner.

Spice Cake

2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup butter, creamed. 3 eggs well beaten. 1 cup raisins and 1/2 cup nuts mixed with flour to prevent settling to bottom of cake. 2 tsp. each of nutmeg and cinnamon and 1 tsp. ground cloves. Stir 1 tsp. soda into 2/3 cup sour milk. Mix all together with 2 cups flour. Bake in round cake pan, slowly, for 1 hour.

- Mrs. G. A. Nichols.

Southern Spice Cake

1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 6 eggs, 2/3 cup buttermilk. 2 tsp. soda dissolved in milk, 1 tbsp. each of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves, 1 lb. raisins, 1 cup nuts, citron and pear preserves (cut fine), 4 cups flour. This makes a large cake. - Mrs. Lew Merrell.

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