Coffee Cake, No. 2

Ingredients

• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 2 eggs
• H cup molasses
• 1 cup strong coffee
• A teaspoon soda
• 2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• A teaspoon salt
• 1 cup chopped raisins
• 5 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder

Method

1. 1

   Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, and spices.

2. 2

   Dredge raisins with some of the flour.

3. 3

   Cream butter and sugar.

4. 4

   Add beaten yolks and molasses, then alternate the coffee and flour; lastly beat in whipped whites.

5. 5

   Divide into 2 loaves and bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Royal baker and pastry cook (1913) by Royal Baking Powder Company, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

teaspoons powdered cinna¬ mon. Mix flour, salt, and baking powder. Cream butter and sugar. Add cinnamon and beaten yolks, then alternate milk and flour. Add whipped whites, beat hard, and bake in 3 layer-pans in quick oven. When cold put together with boiled icing containing melted chocolate. Coffee Cake. — 1 cup very strong coffee, 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 eggs, \A pints flour, 13^ teaspoons Royal Baking Powder, 1 cup stoned raisins, cut in two, A cup chopped citron, 10 drops each extract allspice and nut¬ meg, and A cup milk. Rub the butter and sugar to a white cream; add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating 3 or 4 minutes after each. Sift together flour and powder, which add to the butter, etc., with the coffee, rasins, citron, milk, and extracts. Mix into a smooth batter. Bake in paper-lined cake-tin, in a hot oven, 50 minutes. Coffee Cake, No. 2. — 1 cup brown sugar, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, H cup molasses, 1 cup strong coffee, A teaspoon soda dissolved in the molasses, 2 teaspoons powdered cinna¬ mon, 1 teaspoon cloves, A teaspoon salt, 1 cup chopped raisins, 5 cups flour, 2 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder

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