Aunt Nellie's Cake

Ingredients

• cupful drippings
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• cupful sugar
• 1 teaspoonful cinnamon
• % cupful molasses
• 1 egg
• ^ cupful sour milk
• % teaspoonful cloves
• 1 teaspoonful soda
• 1 teaspoonful ginger
• 2 cupfuls flour
• % cupful raisins
• 24 English walnuts

Method

1. 1

   Add the sugar to the meat drippings and beat thoroughly with a spoon.

2. 2

   Then add the well beaten egg yolk and the molasses in which the soda, first dissolved in a little water, has been stirred.

3. 3

   Sift the flour and add the salt, spices, chopped raisins and nutmeats.

4. 4

   Add this mixture alternately with the milk.

5. 5

   Fold in the stiffly beaten egg white.

6. 6

   Bake as a loaf.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 12 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The farm cook & rule book (1923) by Nell Beaubien Nichols, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Aunt Nellie's Cake cupful drippings 1 teaspoonful salt cupful sugar 1 teaspoonful cinnamon % cupful molasses 1 egg ^ cupful sour milk % teaspoonful cloves 1 teaspoonful soda 1 teaspoonful ginger 2 cupfuls flour % cupful raisins 24 English walnuts

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