Boiling Water Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cupful boiling water
• 1 cupful sultana raisins
• 1 cupful sugar
• 2.5 cupfuls flour
• 0.5 cupful Crisco
• 0.5 teaspoonful salt
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder
• 1.5 cupful chopped candied citron peel
• 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg
• 0.5 teaspoonful lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   Put Crisco and sugar into basin, pour boiling water over them; let stand till cold, then add egg well beaten, sift in flour, salt, baking powder, and nutmeg, add peel, raisins, and lemon extract, and mix well.

2. 2

   Turn into greased and floured small square tin and bake in moderate oven half hour.

3. 3

   Cool and cover with boiled frosting.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 8 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes (1913) by Marion Harris Neil, page 64. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiling Water Cake 1 cupful boiling water 1 cupful sultana raisins 1 cupful sugar 2% cupfuls flour ly cupful Crisco ¥% teaspoonful salt 1 egg 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 1% cupful chopped candied 1 teaspoonful grated nutmeg citron peel ¥% teaspoonful lemon extract Put Crisco and sugar into basin, pour boiling water over them; let stand till cold, then add egg well beaten, sift in flour, salt, baking powder, and nutmeg, add peel, raisins, and lemon extract, and mix well. Turn into greased and floured small square tin and bake in moderate oven half hour. Cool and cover with boiled frosting. Sufficient for one small cake. Butterless-Milkless-Eggless Cake 2 cupfuls brown sugar 1 teaspoonful powdered cloves 24 cupful Crisco ¥% teaspoonful powdered mace 2 cupfuls water ¥ teaspoonful grated nutmeg 2 cupfuls sultana raisins 2 teaspoonfuls baking soda 2 cupfuls seeded raisins 4 cupfuls flour 1 teaspoonful salt 1 teaspoonful baking powder 2 teaspoonfuls powdered 1% cupfuls chopped nut meats cinnamon 3 tablespoonfuls warm water Put Crisco into saucepan, add sugar, water, raisins, salt, and spices, and boil three minutes. Cool, and when cold add flour, baking powder, soda dissolved in warm water and nut meats. Mix and turn into Criscoed and floured cake tin and bake in slow oven one and a half hours. Sufficient for one medium-sized cake, 120 Cakes Caramel Cake For Cake 1% cupfuls sifted sugar 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 eggs ‘ 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract % cupful Crisco ¥ cupful granulated sugar 1 cupful cold water }4 teaspoonful salt 3 cupfuls flour ¥% cupful boiling water For Filling 1 teaspoonful Crisco ¥% cupful brown sugar 1 ounce chocolate ¥% cupful granulated sugar 1 teaspoonful vanilla extract Pinch salt ¥% cupful hot water For cake. Put granulated sugar into small pan and melt over fire till brown, remove from fire, add boiling water, stir quickly, return to stove, and stir until thick syrup; set aside to cool. Beat Crisco and sugar to a cream, add eggs well beaten, flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla, three tablespoonfuls of the syrup and water. Mix and beat two minutes, then divide into two Criscoed and floured layer tins and bake in moderate oven twenty minutes. For filling. Melt granulated sugar in small pan and stir until it becomes a light brown syrup, add the water gradually, then brown sugar, Crisco, salt, and chocolate, stirring all the time. Cook until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, or 240° F. Remove from fre, add van- illa, beat until creamy, then spread between cakes. Sufficient for one layer cake. Chocolate Cake For Cake 1 cupful sugar 2 cupfuls flour 3

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