Pork Cake

Ingredients

• One pound salt pork chopped fine
• one pound raisins
• one pound currants
• one pint brown sugar
• half pound citron
• one pint boiling water
• half pint molasses
• one heaping quart flour
• one teaspoon mace
• two teaspoons each of cloves
• two teaspoons of cinnamon
• two teaspoons of nutmeg
• rind of one lemon grated
• one tablespoon soda dissolved in hot water

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water on pork, stir until melted, then pass through a colander.

2. 2

   Add sugar, molasses, spices, and half the flour, then fruit mixed with flour, then add soda and rest of flour.

3. 3

   Bake in a well buttered cake pan in a hot and steady oven.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Monmouth Baptist ladies' cook book (1907) by Marian B. Sexton, page 86. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PORK CAKE. Mrs. Mary Patterson. One pound salt pork chopped fine, one pound rais- ins, one pound currants, one pint brown sugar, half pound citron, one pint boiling water, half pint mo- lasses, one heaping quart flour, one teaspoon mace, two teaspoons each of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, rind of one lemon grated, one tablespoon soda dis- solved in hot wate

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