Plain Loaf Cake

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 pounds brown sugar
• 1 1/2 pounds butter
• 1/2 pint of yeast
• 1 pint milk
• 2 pounds raisins
• 1 teaspoon each cinnamon
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon cloves
• 3 pounds flour

Method

1. 1

   Stir butter and sugar to a cream, warm the milk and stir with the yeast in flour, let rise overnight, saving out one cup of flour to add next morning with the other ingredients, beaten eggs and floured raisins.

2. 2

   Put in pans and let rise forty minutes.

3. 3

   This recipe makes three loaves.

4. 4

   Bake in moderate oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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