Plantation Recipe

Ingredients

• flour
• three eggs
• one teaspoonful of cinnamon
• one-half teaspoonful of cloves
• one-half teaspoonful of allspice
• one-fourth of a nutmeg, grated
• one-half pint of seeded raisins
• one-half cup of currants
• one-half teaspoonful of soda
• one tablespoonful of hot water

Method

1. 1

   Mix ingredients in order named; dissolve soda in hot water and add last.

2. 2

   Bake in slow oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 158. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice, and one-fourth of a nutmeg, grated, one-half pint of seeded raisins, one-half cup of currants, one-half teaspoonful of soda. Mix in order named; dissolve soda in one tablespoonful of hot water and add last. Bake in slow oven. Delicious. Plantation Recipe— Cloe. CAKES. 219 DRIED APPLE PIE. Soak four cups of dried apples over night in cold water; in the morn- ing drain and chop fine; stew till clear in two cups of syrup. Use one cup of brown sugar, one cup of buttermilk, three-quarters of a cup of butter, two eggs, one tablespoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of mixed spices and one nutmeg, grated; stir quite stiff and bake slowly. Add any kind of fruit you like or a pound of raisins. Mrs. M. E. Hilton. LOAF FIG CAKE. One cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, the whites of three eggs, two teaspoonfuls of baking-powder and flour to make dough. Wash and split one-half pound of figs; put in a deep pan a layer of dough, then one of figs. Alternate till all are used and bake in a moderate oven. Mrs. J. E. Taintor. HONEY CAKE. Stir one-half pint of sour cream into a pint of flour. Add one-half teaspoonful of ground ginger, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of powdered cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and honey; mix thoroughly and when the cake is ready for the oven, add one-half teaspoonful of soda

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