Easiest Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup butter or other shortening
• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 4 cups plain flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons soda
• 1 cup raisin water
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground spice
• 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Cook raisins in water for 15 min.

2. 2

   Cool.

3. 3

   Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and raisin water; sift flour and soda together, use part of flour to roll raisins in, add to cake mixture, then rest of flour and spices and mix well.

4. 4

   Line and grease pans, bake slowly until done.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Favorite recipes (St. Luke's Mission, Durham, 1956) (1956) by Saint Luke's Episcopal Church (Durham, N.C.). Woman's Auxiliary, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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