Raised Coffee Cake

Ingredients

• Scald 2 cups milk
• % cup butter
• % cup sugar
• 1 teasp salt
• 1 compressed cake of yeast
• 1/2 cup lukewarm water
• 2 well-beaten eggs
• 1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup citron cut fine
• and enough flour to make a stiff batter

Method

1. 1

   Scald milk, add butter, sugar, and salt.

2. 2

   When lukewarm, add yeast dissolved in water, eggs, and flour.

3. 3

   Let rise overnight, then spread in pans and let rise again.

4. 4

   Top with frosting and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Farm and home cook book and housekeeper's assistant (1907) by Adeline O. Goessling, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Raised Coffee Cake Scald 2 cups milk, add % cup butter, '^k cup sugar, and 1 teasp salt. When lukewarm add 1 compressed cake of yeast, dissolved in i/^ cup lukewarm water, 2 well-beaten eggs, and enough flour to make a stiff batter. Lastly add 1 cup raisins and 1/^ cup citron cut fine. Let rise over night. In the morn- ing stir up the mixture again and spread in buttered dripping pans to a depth of about % inch; cover and let rise, and then spread over the top a frosting made as follows: Melt y^ cup butter, add % cup sugar

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