Election Cake
From Principles of food preparation, 1914
Richer mixtures should have a longer rising time.
Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from Principles of food preparation (1914) by Mary Davoren Molony Chambers, page 77. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Election Cake. The coffee-cake mixture, with about a quarter-cup more butter (making from three-quarters to one cup of butter to three cups of flour), one-half to one 175 176 PRINCIPLES OF FOOD PREPARATION cup more sugar, perhaps an extra egg or two, and then the whole mass can be fairly loaded up with raisins, currants, chopped figs, candied citron
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