Nut and Raisin Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Cottolene
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 cup fine sugar
• 1/2 cup milk
• 3 eggs unbeaten
• Grated rind of half an orange
• 1 cup pecan nut meats
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/4 teaspoon mace
• 2 cups pastry flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Method

1. 1

   Cream Cottolene, add sugar gradually while stirring, then add eggs one at a time.

2. 2

   Pass nuts and raisins through a chopper, mix with flour sifted with baking powder, salt, and spices.

3. 3

   Add alternately with milk to the mixture.

4. 4

   Bake in a well-greased tube pan for 35-40 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty-two Sunday dinners (1913) by Elizabeth O. Hiller, page 40. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

. 1 teaspoon salt. \}/2 tablespoons Cottolene. J^ cup milk or thin cream. Process: Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt; rub Cottolene in lightly with the tips of fingers; add milk and mix to soft dough. Put sugar, cherries, drained from juice, and lemon juice in bottom of well-greased baking dish. Cover with dough, place in steamer, set over kettle of boiling water, lay a crash towel over steam- er, replace cover, and steam pudding forty-five minutes. Serve with cherry juice, thickened with arrow root and sweetened. Vm quite ashamed — 'tis mighty rude To eat so much — but all's so good! — Pope. t % LV^ 90 ^2 Sunday Dinners -^"^^ First Sunday (YKlenu Cold Consomme Veal Loaf (Hot) — Tomato Sauce OR Cold — with String Bean Salad Saratoga Chips Beets in Drawn Butter Figs in Sherry Jelly with Whipped Cream Nut and Raisin Cake with Caramel Fro3ting Iced Coffee -I K CHICKEN CONSOMME (COLD) Place a four-pound fowl in stock pot and a small knuckle of veal; add four quarts of cold water and heat slowly to boiling point. Skim, reduce heat and let simmer five hours. Do not allow liquid to boil as it will destroy its gelatinous properties, and the stock will be turbid. The last hour of cooking add one-third cup each celery, carrot and turnip cut in small dice, one-third cup sliced onion, one teaspoon peppercorns, one tablespoon salt, three sprays thyme, one spray marjoram, two sprays parsley, one-half bay leaf. Remove fowl and knuckle; strain soup through double cheese cloth, cool quickly, and remove all fat; clear. Fill Bouillon cups three-fourths full and chill. This should be a clear, savory jelly. TO CLEAR SOUP STOCK After straining the stock through double cheese cloth, remove all fat and put the stock into a four-quart stew-pan. Place on range and allow the white and shell of one egg for each quart of stock. Beat the eggs slightly and crush shells in small bits, add slowly to stock, stirring constantly but slowly until the boiling point is reached; pfZ Sunday 5^ SuTiduy Dinmrs 9i let boil two minutes. Reduce the heat so that stock barely simmers twenty minutes, skim and strain through double cheese cloth placed over fine soup strainer. If stock to be cleared is not suflficiently seasoned, add more seasoning before clearing. VEAL LOAF Wipe three pounds of lean veal, discarding all skin and tissue. Pass meat through the meat-chopper twice, with one-half pound of salt pork; add six crackers rolled, one-fourth cup cream, juice of one small lemon (about two tablespoons), one tablespoon salt, one-half tablespoon black pepper, onion juice to taste. Mix thoroughly and pack solidly in a granite, brick-shaped bread pan, spread top evenly and brush with slightly beaten white of egg. Bake in a moderate oven three hours, basting often with one-fourth cup of pork fat or dripping diluted with one-fourth cup boiling water. Prick surface with a fork that fat may penetrate meat. Chill, remove to serving platter, surround by any good vegetable salad. If served hot, surround with Tomato, Creole or Espagnole Sauce. This may be prepared Saturday. STRING BEAN SALAD Marinate cold, cooked, stringless beans with French Dressing. There should be enough beans to make a generous border around a cold veal loaf. Sprinkle beans thickly with small onions thinly sliced and the rings separated. Garnish edge of dish with sprays of parsley and Nasturtium blossoms. The finely chopped seed-cells may also be sprinkled over beans and is quite an addition. SARATOGA CHIPS Wash and pare the desired number of uniform-sized potatoes. Slice thinly (using slaw cutter) into a bowl of cold water. Let stand several hours, changing the water often or until it is quite clear. Drain and drop them into a kettle of boiling water; allow them to boil just one minute. Drain quickly and cover with cold water. Drain from cold water and dry between towels. Fry a few at a time in deep hot Cottolene, keeping them moving with the skimmer. Drain on soft brown paper and sprinkle with salt. 92 5^ Sunday Dinners ''''' First Sunday BEETS IN DRAWN BUTTER Wash the small new beets and cook in boiling salted water until tender. Drain and cover with cold water. Rub off the skins and slice them or cut them in cubes. Reheat them in DRAWN BUTTER (SOUR SAUCE) Melt two tablespoons butter in a sauce-pan; add three table- spoons flour, stir to a smooth paste and add gradually, while stirring constantly, one cup boiling water. Boil two minutes, then add four tablespoons hot cream and four tablespoons vinegar (if vinegar is too acid use two tablespoons each of vinegar and water), season with salt and pepper. FIGS IN SHERRY JELLY 1 tablespoon granulated gela- J^ cup best table Sherry wine. tine. Juice of 1 small lemon. 34 cup cold water. 3^ dozen washed figs. J^ cup boiling water. Whipped Cream. }/2 cup sugar. Process: Soak gelatine in cold water, then dissolve it in boiling water; add sugar and stir occasionally until mixture begins to thicken, then add wine and lemon juice. Chill a pint mold in ice water (a fancy mold is attractive for this purpose). Separate the figs, slice them thinly and dip some of them in the jelly and use them for decorating the mold; then fill the mold with alternate layers of sliced figs and the mixture, allowing the jelly to "set" each time before adding the slices of figs. Chill thoroughly. Unmold jelly on serving dish and surround with whipped cream sweetened and flavored as desired. Use pastry bag and rose tube for this purpose. NUT AND RAISIN CAKE J^ cup Cottolene. 4 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cup fine sugar. J^ cup milk. 3 eggs unbeaten. Grated rind of half an orange. 1 cup pecan nut meats. 3^ teaspoon cinnamon. % cup raisins. 34 teaspoon mace. 2 cups pastry flour

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