New England Election Cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup bread dough slightly rounded
• J^ cup Cottolene
• V/i cups flour
• 2 eggs
• }^ teaspoon soda
• 1 cup soft brown sugar
• - 34 teaspoon cloves
• }^ cup sour milk
• % cup seeded and shredded raisins
• 1 teaspoon salt
• }^ teaspoon nutmeg
• J^ teaspoon cinnamon

Method

1. 1

   Cream Cottolene and work it in the dough with the hand.

2. 2

   Add eggs well beaten, sugar, soda dissolved in milk, fruit dredged with one-fourth cup flour, remainder flour mixed and sifted with spices and salt.

3. 3

   Beat thoroughly with the hand.

4. 4

   Turn mixture into a well-buttered, brick-shaped bread pan, cover and let rise for one and a quarter hours in a warm place.

5. 5

   Bake one hour in a moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoon soda. finely chopped. Whites 12 eggs beaten stiff. 34 cup brandy. 175 176 Supplementary Recipes Process: Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually, stirring con- stantly; add egg yolks, continue stirring and beating, add molasses, flour mixed and sifted with spices, salt and soda; fold in the whites of eggs and lastly add the fruit except citron. Turn mixture into a well-greased pan lined with several thicknesses of heavy paper, put citron into mixture in layers, having a layer of batter on top. Divide the mixture equally in two tube pans, eight inches in diameter, filling pans two-thirds full. Bake two and three-quarter hours. NEW ENGLAND ELECTION CAKE 1 cup bread dough slightly rounded. 6 large figs chopped fine. J^ cup Cottolene. V/i cups flour. 2 eggs. }/2 teaspoon soda. 1 cup soft brown sugar. - 34 teaspoon cloves. }/2 cup sour milk. }^ teaspoon nutmeg. % cup seeded and shredded raisins. J^ teaspoon cinnamon. 1 teaspoon salt

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