Poor Man’s Cake

Name: Poor Man’s Cake
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: One and a half cups brown sugar; two of flour; one each of butter; chopped raisins; three eggs; three table-spoons sour milk; half tea-spoon soda; half cup blackberry jam

From Buckeye cookery, 1892

Serves 4

This is excellent as well as economical. Recipe by Mrs. J. S. Robinson.

Presented as published in 1892. 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 Buckeye cookery (1892), page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Poor Man’s ane CAKE. [One and a half cups brown sugar, two of flour, one each of but- us and chopped raisins, three eggs, three table-spoons sour milk, half tea-spoon soda, half cup blackberry jam

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