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Pecan Cake

Name: Pecan Cake
Yield: 20 servings
Ingredients: 21/4 pints sugar; 1^ cups butter; 3 pints flour; 1 tumbler whiskey; % tumbler New Orleans molasses; % teaspoonful soda; 4^4 tumblers pecans; IV2 teaspoonfuls baking powder; 2^ pounds raisins; 1 nutmeg

From The Henderson cook book, 1914

Serves 20

Submitted by Miss Helen Tull, Philadelphia.

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 The Henderson cook book (1914) by First Baptist Church (Henderson, N.C.). Ladies' Aid Society, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PECAN CAKE. ISTine eggs, 21/4 pints sugar, 1^ cups butter, 3 pints flour, 1 tumbler whiskey, % tumbler New Orleans molasses, % tea- spoonful soda mixed in molasses, 4^4 tumblers pecans, IV2 teaspoonfuls baking powder, 2^ pounds raisins, 1 nutmeg

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