Bread Cake

Ingredients

• three cups of dough
• two cups of white sugar
• one cup of butter
• two eggs well beaten
• one cup chopped raisins
• one teaspoonful cinnamon
• half a teaspoonful of soda

Method

1. 1

   Combine all ingredients in an earthen bowl and work with your hand for half an hour until soft.

2. 2

   Place in a well-buttered baking dish lined with white paper and let rise for two hours.

3. 3

   Bake in a moderate oven for an hour and a half, checking occasionally.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking and castle-building (1880) by Emma P. Ewing, Marietta McPherson Greenough, page 80. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bread cake is, to my taste, better than the average fruit-cake, for it has a cleaner taste. Yet it doesn't cost quarter as much as the fruit-cake, and is easier made, isn't it, Alice?" LITTLE THINGS. 191 "Yes, mamma, this cake gave me no more trouble to make than would a loaf of bread. From the bread, when perfectly light and ready for the last moulding, I took three cups of dough, to which I added two cups of white sugar, one cup of butter, two eggs well beaten, one cup chopped raisins, one teaspoonful cinnamon, and half a teaspoonful of soda

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