Farmers Cake

Name: Farmers Cake
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: Three cups flour; % cup lard; 14% cups brown sugar; 1 cup raisins or currants; a heaping teaspoon of baking soda; 1 cup molasses; 1 cup sour milk

From Magnet users cook book, 1920

Serves 10

Submitted by Mrs. A. McBeth, Long’s Cove, Kings Co., N. B.

Presented as published in 1920. 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 Magnet users cook book (1920) by Petrie Manufacturing Co, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FARMERS CAKE. Three cups flour, % cup lard, 14% cups brown: 2 sugar, i cup raisins or currants, Crumble together: then take a heaping tea- -~ spoon of baking soda in a little boiling water. Pour in 1 cup molasses and ae stir till foamy, and add to the other ingredients 1 cup sour milk

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