Coffee Spiced Cake

Ingredients

• One-half cupful of sugar
• One egg
• One-half cupful of butter
• One tea-spoonful of cinnamon
• One-half cupful of molasses
• One tea-spoonful of cloves
• One-half cupful of coffee
• One tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg
• Two cupfuls of flour
• One tea-spoonful of soda
• One cupful of raisins

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the egg, well beaten.

2. 2

   Heat the coffee hot, add to it the soda, and when the latter is dissolved, turn the coffee into the molasses; then add the mixture to the butter, sugar and egg.

3. 3

   Seed the raisins, and chop them rather coarsely.

4. 4

   Sift the spices into the flour, sprinkle the raisins with a little of the flour, and stir the rest of the flour into the mixture.

5. 5

   Lastly add the raisins, and beat well for at least five minutes, when all should be very smooth.

6. 6

   Bake in one loaf for three-quarters of an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 229. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

COFFEE SPICED CAKE. One-half cupful of sugar. One egg. One-half cupful of butter. One tea-spoonful of cinnamon. One-half cupful of molasses. One tea-spoonful of cloves. One-half cupful of coffee. One tea-spoonful of grated nutmeg. Two cupfuls of flour. One tea-spoonful of soda. One cupful of raisins

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