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Smoking Plum Cake

From Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .., 1904

A soft ginger-bread with raisins.

Presented as published in 1904. 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 Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

smoking plum-cake fresh from the oven." — Charles Lamb ("Essays of Elia"). « 4 SMOKING plum-cake," such as boys like, is no more than a soft ginger-bread with rai- sins stirred in. Make as follows: Mix 57 A a batter of one cupful of butter, one cup- ful of New Orleans molasses, one cup- ful of sugar, one cupful of sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little boiling water, a ta- blespoonful of ground ginger, a tea- spoonful of cinnamon, two eggs and about five cupfuls of flour; reserve one cupful of flour to dredge two cupfuls of seeded raisins
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