Pork Cake

Ingredients

• % cup hot coffee
• y cup chopped salt pork
• 2 tablespoons raisins
• 2 tablespoons currants or cut prunes
• 1 teaspoon spices
• % cup sugar
• V/2 cups flour
• 3/3 teaspoon soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Chop the pork fine and pour the hot coffee over it.

2. 2

   Stir into this the flour and other ingredients, stirring thoroughly to remove lumps.

3. 3

   Bake in an oiled pan for an hour, or steam in a lard pail for about 3 hours covering the pail tightly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Camp cookery (Milam, for Boy Scouts) (1918) by Ava B. Milam, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pork Cake % cup hot coffee y cup chopped salt pork 2 tablespoons raisins 2 tablespoons currants or cut prunes 1 teaspoon spices 94 % cup sugar V/2 cups flour 3/3 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons baking powder

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